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SATURDAY MAKCH 251989

Bush says air

threats should
be kept secret

More bulletins leaked
on terror warnings

t President Bosh said that bombing • His co mme nts came after two farther
and hijacking warnings should be kept security bulletins from the US Federal
secret from the travelling public Aviation Administration were leaked

• He said that making all warnings • Tighter security checks at London
public would encourage “every nut in airports singled out men of Mlddle-
the world’' to make similar threats Eastern descent for surveillance

By Mohsin All in Washington and Michael Evans in London

President Bush spoke out
strongly yesterday in fa¬
vour of bomb and hijack
warnings being kept se¬
cret from the general
public, as fears of another
terrorist outrage contin¬
ued to cause serious de¬
lays at British airports.

He made his views clear
after two further security
bulletins from the US Fed¬
eral Aviation Administra¬
tion had been leaked.

Mr Bush said that the
purpose of all FAA bulletins
was to alert security personnel

In today’s
52-page
Times

SECTION 1

Home news.2-5

Overseas news.6,8

Archaeology.13

Births, marriages, deaths13

Church.12

Church services.13

Court & Social...12

Crossword.16

Diary. 10

Leading articles.11

Letters.11

Obituaries.12

On this day.10

Religion.12

Science.13

Shoparound.14

Shopping.15

Weather.16

SECTION 2

Business news.

Family Money.

.17-19

_20-25

SECTION 3 _

Arts.. 37

Books.... 36

Bridge and dress.30

Concise crossword.30

Eating Out...30

Entertainments.32

Food and drink.31

Jumbo crossword..42

Records. 33

Television ana radiO—34,35

Travel... 38-41

Week Ahead....42

SECTION 4 _

Sport.43-50

Gardening. 51

Leisure.51

Racing.48-50

Soft line over
nuclear update

Members of Labour's defence
policy review team believe the
United States may be pre¬
pared to compromise on the
timing of a decision to mod¬
ernise short-range nuclear
missiles in Europe and will
not insist on a linn commit¬
ment being made at the Nato
summit in Brussels in May.
Review team visit, page 2
Gerald Kaufman, page 10

Contra aid deal

President Bush agreed a deal
with congressional leaders Ibr
non-military funding to the
Nicaraguan Contras ....Page 6

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at airports and elsewhere, “not
to scare the traveller so that he
will have no confidence in the
safety of the airlines'".

The President said that if all
terrorist warnings were made
known to the public, most of
which proved to be ‘"friv¬
olous”, the number of calls
would “quadruple because ev¬
ery nut in the world will start
calling in and enjoying the
silent satisfaction of fouling
up the travel schedules”.

Mr Bush, interviewed in the
Washington Times, added
that it was prudent to allow
(be security people to know
and to take as many.“precise,
steps” as possible. '

One bulletin that came ; to
light yesterday, sent on
December 7 last year — two
weeks before the Lockerbie
disaster—warned airlines and
governments of an incident at
Frankfurt airport when two
bogus police officers ques¬
tioned US officials working
for TWA about arrangements
for transporting “pistols, ex¬
plosives and a detonator”.

Neither the FAA nor the
Department of Transport in
London would make any com¬
ment about this document,
the fourth to be issued in the
weeks leading up to Lockerbie.

The other bulletin, leaked
earlier this week, was dated
March 16 and warned of a
possible hijack attempt by
three named Lebanese Pales¬
tinians. Yesterday, an official
at the US State Department
counter-ierorist section said
that none of the three listed
were known terrorists.

Mr Marlin Fiizwater, the
White House spokesman, also
emphasized that, contrary to
published reports, the March
16 warning did not mention
the Easier holiday period, nor
did it refer to a specific airline
or airport. But he explained
that the public should be made
aware that this bulletin was
designed to heighten the al¬
ready “high-security proce¬
dures now in effect”. Mr
Fiizwater added: “FAA scc-
uritv bulletins are distributed

to airline and airport officials
who can direct responses to
the threat. This sensitive
information is not designed
for public distribution.”

Britain and the US shared
the view that passengers
should remain confident that
all reasonable precautions
were being taken to ensure the
highest level of security. To
underline this point, both
Heathrow and Gatwick yes¬
terday were subjected to long
delays yesterday, as armed
police patrolled the airports.

At Heathrow, dozens of
extra police officers and plain-
clothed detectives were, draf¬
ted in for the weekend.
Security staff doubled the
numbers of checks on pas¬
sengers flying to main destina¬
tions. Men of Middle-Eastern
origin were singled out for
surveillance. The leaked
March 16 warning suggested
that a bomb might be planted
in radios or electrical goods.
Yet thousands of passengers
queued for their planes with
radio and hi-fi equipment

The US team of six officials
from the Department -of
Transportation, which has
been meeting with Lockerbie
investigators in Britain and
West Germany this week,
returned home yesterday.

A department spokesman
said they would be reporting
to Mr Samuel Skinner, the
T ransportation Secretary,
w'ho is due to fly to Europe
next month to see his counter¬
parts in Britain, France and
West Germany about improv¬
ing the system for disseminat¬
ing anti-terrorist warnings.

At Heathrow, Miss Angela
Jones, aged 27, from Man¬
chester, was one of many
passengers carrying a radio.
She said she had no idea that
passengers had been advised
to leave radio cassettes at
home. “Pm quite embar¬
rassed. because if 1 had known
1 wouldn't have brought it. It's
ironic because the only reason
1 did bring it was in case there
were delays. Now I find I may
be the cause of the delays."

By Ian Smith, Edward

• Gorman, Kerry Gill.

- and Mark Souster

Firemen used hydraulic lad¬
ders, ropes and harnesses to
free 59 people from wind-
buffeted cable cars in a dra¬
matic rescue more than 30ft
above ground at Alton Towers
leisure complex m Stafford¬
shire yesterday.

In a two-hour emergency
rescue operation a man in a
wheelchair was brought safely
down and a two-yearokl boy
was strapped to the back, of an
Alton Towers worker.

Although several passengers
suffered slight shock none
needed hospital treatment.

Firemen were called to Eu¬
rope's biggest leisure park

Forecasts - - - 16

after high winds caused the
Skyride cable-car system to
shut down automatically,
trapping day-trippers high
above a tree-hoed ravine.

. One cable car, caught by a
particularly strong gust,
jammed against a stanchion,
trapping terrified passengers
for more than two hours.

A firemen had to use special
equipment to swing down the
cable to the car before getting
through a service hatch in its
roof.

Once inside he dropped a
rope to the ground where
colleagues were cutting down
trees and undergrowth to
make room for passengers to
be lowered safely.

In all 33 people from three
cars on the 40-car ride were
rescued using hydraulic hfls
while others had to be lowered
to the ground using ropes and
harnesses.

A senior fireman said: “Al¬
though the winds were gusting
quite sharply at times and
swinging the gondolas back
and forth there was never any
real danger, though many of
the people, including old la¬
dies and babes-in-arms, were
understandably anxious and a
few were near panic.”

One of those rescued was
Mr Trevor Rowbottom from
Scunthorpe who was trapped
1 00 ft up with his wife and two
sons.

“Descending from the gon¬
dola was the most frightening
thing 1 have ever experienced.

Coutinned on page 16, col 4 Swinging to safety: A passenger being lowered

TV sex series will
be seen at 6.30pm

By Richard Evans, Media Editor __

from a stranded cable car at Alton'Towers.

Tibetan
toH 600
over 18
months

From Catherine Sampson
Peking

Riots in Tibet have cost
hundreds of lives since the
uprisings two years ago and
die recent unrest left 40 Chi¬
nese policemen dead or
wounded^. Major-General
Zhang Sftaosong, the political.
commissar in change of mar¬
tial law in Lhasa,; said
yesterday.

His revelation," together
with details of 21' riots since
1987, seems to indicate that
China sees a grave threat to its
stability. Unity in the free of
national crisis is becoming the
caschphrase of this year's ses¬
sion of the National People's
Congress (Parliament).

Details of petitions against
corrupt officials, low living
standards and inflation in
China paint a very different
picture from that presented by
Mr Zhao Ziyang. the then
Prime Minister, two years ago.

General Zhang said that 600
people had been killed in
Tibetan riots since September
1987. The Chinese authorities
claim the rioters had guns in
the latest riots in Lhasa, but no
Western witness has con¬
firmed this.

The general said pro-in¬
dependence activities were
growing in strength. “Under¬
ground-activities” were giving
way to demonstrations, and
scattered disturbances to or¬
ganized sabotage. T ibeians in
other provinces were being
incited to rioL Separatists had
gone underground now.

General Zhang was not
alone in displaying signs of a
new openess. Mr Wang Fang,
the Minister of Security, told
the annual session of Par¬
liament of price rises, felling
living standards and increas¬
ing crime rates.

Mr Fang said that in the
countryside, peasants had
demonstrated and presented
petitions complaining about
corrupt officials as well as
rising prices. In the cities, the
main complaint was inflation.

Crime increased by 45 per
cent in 1988. with more than
200 policemen killed on duty,
and a further 5,691 injured,
Mr Fang said.

Minorco court offer

By Graham Searje&nL Financial Editor

Minorco. the mining invest¬
ment group, is to offer the
New York district court a
binding promise to sell
Consolidated Gold Fields*
main Uni led Slates asset, in a
last-ditch attempt to lift legal
barriers to its £3.2 billion
takeover bid for the mining
group, the largest ever made
for a British company.

The South African-con¬

trolled group admitted that if
the private anti-tnist case
brought by ConsGold went to
a full trial, it could last many
weeks, preventing it winning
control before April 26, the
deadline under City takeover
rules. It sees little chance of
agreeing a takeover at a higher
price with the hostile Cons¬
Gold board.

Details, page 17

The most intimate guide to
love and sex for young people
to appear on British television
is being planned for peak
viewing time on Channel 4
later this year.

The 13-part series — called
“Survivors' Guide” and
aimed at 17 to 27 year-olds —
will tackle sensitive issues like
the female orgasm, pleasing a
partner and avoiding Aids.

Although simulated sex is
ruled out, the series makers
hope to include detailed dis¬
cussions of sexual techniques.
The programmes, which
Channel 4 describe as a young
persons' passport to survival
in the 1990s. will be shown at
6.30pm — well before the 9pm
“watershed” hour.

Mrs Eleanor Stephens, who
is making the series, said it
would “go farther than any¬
thing ever shown on TV.**

The series has received

provisional approval from the
Independent Broadcasting
Authority but the proposed
timing has infuriated watch¬
dogs and last night Mrs Mary
Whitehouse. president of the
National Viewers' and Lis¬
teners' Association, said it
could do much harm.

Mrs Stephens, the British
pioneer of candid group dis¬
cussions on sex in the 1970s, is
bead of an independent film
company which is working on
a pilot programme. The series
is due to start in May.

She said yesterday: “I see no
point in tackling subjects un¬
less it is done frankly. Love-
making causes all kinds of
problems, especially for those
jo our target audience.

The programmes wfl] fea¬
ture young people talking
about their problems to others

Costumed oa page 16, col 1

BBC baffled by the time for change

By Edward Gorman changed at two o'clock “for donkey's has a licence and for which his diet

. . _ .. years”. have paid. “AU we want to do is open

Indepcnden •K Luckily, there are no BA flights during nine o'dock and stay open for five hoi

nght.The BBC-idnmm ^ mho - thc limc G f the switch-over orpassengpi -that's what people are paying for,”

Hntkh ° AirwnVS-^No one seems °ab- CouId afrivc early for “ke-oAs or said.

Bntish Airways, no one ».ms ab- suddcnly an hour lale> ~ It * s a He also pointed out that if the poli
soluidy sure wheortshould happen; and hoffcndous 5U bjcci 1 must admit,” she go ahead and insist that he dose at “ti

--- o'clock" they could provoke am

ioiot Contusion. British Summer Time begins at lam scenes among the customers.

The problem: when should ihe clocks tomorrow, when docks go forward one ft is worth noting that among seve
change'.* According to the BBCs manager hour. It wfll end at 2 am on October 29, authorities consulted by Mr Gilligan i
in charge of time, the clocks should go ~ " exactly when the docks should chani

forward on Sunday' morning at two said. “It's like time warp in H.G. Wells the Home Office told him last week tl
o clock, and dial's what will Happen on isn't it?" the docks move forward at two o’dot

ic.cviston and radio. in Lancashire the tricky business of not one.

According to the Home Office, how- switching from Greenwich Mean Time As for bis current dilemma, the Hot
ever, the BBC will be wrong, which io British Summer Time is more serious Office raid yesterday that if the policy
means that when Radio 2 broadcasts the —- police in Blackburn are insisting that a Blackburn insist, he will have to dc
news at one o dock tomorrow morning, local disco. Peppermint Place, must when they tell him to.
it will m tact be two o'clock. close an hour early, at one o'clock GMT, After all, as the Home Office poir

British Airways will also change at which will be 2 am BST, despite having a out. he will be able to stay open for;
2 am. switching its schedules, according licence until two o'clock GMT. extra hour in the Autumn when t

to the Home Office, at the wrong time. A The manager. Mr Bill Gilli gan , is clocks change back to Greenwich M«
BA spokeswoman said airlines had angry about losing an hour for which he Time. So it all fraianrpg out in (be end

changed at two o'clock “for donkey's
years”.

Luckily, there are no BA flights during
the time of the switch-over or passengers
could arrive early for take-ofls or
suddenly land an hour late. “It's a
horrendous subject 1 must admit,” she

British Summer Time begins at 1 am
tomorrow, when docks go forward one
hour. It wfll aid at 2 am on October 29.

said. “It's like time warp in H.G. Wells
isn't it?”

in Lancashire the tricky business of
switching from Greenwich Mean Time
to British Summer Time is more serious
— police in Blackburn are insisting that a
local disco. Peppermint Place, must
close an hour early, at one o'clock GMT,
which will be 2 am BST, despite having a
licence until two o'clock GMT.

The manager. Mr Bill Gilligan, is
angry about losing an hour for which he

has a licence and for which his dients
have paid. “AU we want to do is open at
nine o’dock and stay open for five hours
— that's what people are paying for,” he
said.

He also pointed out that if the police
go ahead and insist that he dose at “two
o'clock" they could provoke angry
scenes among the customers,

ft is worth noting that among several
authorities consulted by Mr Gilligan on
exactly when the docks should change,
the Home Office told him last week that
the docks move forward at two o'clock.
not one.

As for bis current dilemma, the Home
Office said yesterday that if the police in
Blackburn insist, he will have to dose
when they tell him to.

After all as the Home Office points
out. he will be able to stay open for an
extra hour in the Autumn when the
clocks change back to Greenwich Mean
Time. So it all balances out in the end.

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Guildhall speech

by Gorbachov

Resident Gorbachov will make a keynote speech in the City
of London's Guildhall during his visit to Britain next week.
The Soviet leader is expected to express hopes For global
disarmament and raise human rights issues.

The speech, together with his meeting with the Queen at
Windsor Castle, will be the main events of his visit from
April 5 to 7.

Mr Gorbachov is expected to hold long talks with Mrs
Margaret Thatcher and to attend lunch and a banquet at
Downing Street during the visit, which was postponed from
last autumn after the Armenian earthquake. He is also due
to visit a factory and see the sights of London.

His wife, Raisa, will carry out separate engagements,
accompanied by Mr Kenneth Baker, Secretary of State for
Education and Science.

Maze escaper in court

Joseph Gerard Donnelly, one of 38 members of the
Provisional IRA who escaped from the Maze jail in
September 1983, appeared before a Belfast court on
Thursday night on 17 charges relating to the escape, during
which a prison officer, was killed. Donnelly, aged 28, from
the Ardoyne area of Belfast, jumped bail in April 1987
before trial on charges about the escape and had been on the
run since. He was arrested in a raid on bis sister's home. The
charges relate to false imprisonment and hijacking.

Chase death inquiry

Essex police started an inquiry yesterday after a youth aged
IS died after crashing his van as it was being pursued by a
police car. He is the eighth person to die as a result of police
pursuits in the past two months. Mr Nicholas Searle, from
Badeow Road. Chelmsford, died in Oldchurch Hospital,
Romford, after he ignored Police Constable Dave
Worsfold's /lashing light and went through a red light. New
police guidelines mean that only drivers with advanced
training will be allowed to pursue suspect vehicles at high
speed.

Nuclear waste tour

Guided tours of the intermediate-level nuclear waste store at
the Dounreay atomic plant, in Caithness, are to begin in
June. Mr Gerry Jordan, director at Dounreay, which has
been shortlisted by Nirex, the government agency for the
disposal of nudear waste, as a possible dump site, said:
“Once people can see for themselves exactly what it is, and
how we can handle it. I'm sure their concern over nudear
waste will be greatly diminished”.

Church fights alcohol

Churches should do more to fight the growing problem of
alcohol misuse, the Church in Wales said yesterday. It
recommends, in a working party report, the opening of
church buildings for Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and
the introduction of church care and support schemes for
problem drinkers. Recent statistics show that Wales has a
higher percentage of heavy drinkers than England, and a 23
per cent higher death rate from cirrhosis.

Pole walk abandoned

Sir Ranujph Fiennes, the explorer, yesterday abandoned his
third attempt to walk to the North Pole unsupported after
covering less th 20 10 miles in two days. Sir Ranulph and his

companion. Dr Mike Stroud, claimed to be fit, a spokesman
said. “Quite simply the surface conditions were appalling”

Sir Ranulph said. He was determined to try again.

US takes soft line

on nuclear update

By Philip Webster, Chief Political Correspondent

The United States govern¬
ment appears read}; to com¬
promise on the timing of the
key decision to modernize
short-range nuclear weapons
in Europe.

Senior Labour Party poli¬
ticians who have been in
Washington this week say the
Americans are taking a softer
line than Mrs Margaret
Thatcher and are not insisting
on a firm decision at the Nato
summit in Brussels in May.

The modernization issue
looks likely to be the biggest
stumbling "block at the sum¬
mit. Chancellor Helmut Kohl
of Wes: Germany wants the
decision to develop a succes¬
sor to the ageing Lance missile
deferred until after the coun¬
try's next election.

Mr Gerald Kaufman, the
shadow foreign secretary, who
ied a delegation from Labour's
defence policy review team,
quotes senior members of the
Administration in The Times
today as sa> ing that the sum¬
mit should produce a re¬
affirmation of the need for

THE TIMES SATURDAY MARCH 25 1989

Talks pledged to allay lawyers’ fears on reform

By Richard Ford, Legal Affairs Reporter

The i Government is seeking to
dampen the controversy over legal
reforms by assuring lawyers that the
; Green Papers are pan of a genuine
j consultation process.

It is being made clear to the
profession that the fitr-reaching
proposals put forward by the Lord
Chancellor are “not set in stone”
and that constructive and careful
arguments are being listened to by
the Government

in spite of the strength of oppo¬
sition to the proposals among die
legal profession and particularly the
Bar, Whitehall sources yesterday
indicated that a Bill implementing
changes is likely to be introduced in
the next session of Parliament.

“This is not a government that
turns tail and backs down”, one
minister said. It is unlikely that the
Government will issue a While
Paper but will proceed straight to a
Bill including measures that have

taken into account some of the
arguments being put forward in
response to Lord Mackay of
Cbshfera's radical proposals to
make the profession more com¬
petitive.

With the Government feting a
mid-term drop in support, ministers
are anxious to lower the passions
that have beat raised among toe
judiciary and leading members of
the Bar before the Green Papers are
debated in the House of Lords on
April 7.

Forty-seven peers have put down
their names to speak in the debate
when the proposal are Ukdy to come
under heavy attack.

Barristers have noted, however,
that the debate coincides with the
ftnqi day of the visit of Presklent
Gorbachov, which is likely to result
in wide coverage in the media.

“The press will be dominated by
Maggie and Gorby. U will com¬

pletely overshadow the debate”
one QC said.

During the past few days both
Lord Mackay and Sir Nicholas
Lyefl, QC, the Solicitor General,
have sought to reassure the pro¬
fession that toe Government is
listening to their fears and argu¬
ments against the proposals.

Lord Mackay told The Times
Forum on the Future of toe Legal
Profession that if those responding
to the Green Papers convinced him
the proposals were bad and needed
to be modified, “modified they win
be".

In the wake of ferocious attacks
on toe proposals, ministers accept
that the legal profession has yet to be
convinced that the Government is
genuine in its desire for consul¬
tation.

A Westminster source said; “The
trouble is that toe legal profession

has taken it that they are firm

proposals, practically a Bill, and that
nothing anybody says will make the
slightest difference.

“Green Papers are. for con¬
sultation and the Government is
genuine in wanting consultation
based on careful and constructive
argument"

Ministers deny that they have
been suprised at toe hostility shown
to the proposals, saying they ex¬
pected the outcry because the Green
Papers forced the profession to
think deeply about future develop¬
ments they would rather ignore.

They are, however, determined to

prevent if possible the debate on toe
proposals descending into rancour
and personal bitterness.

Government sources believe that
if the profession accepts ministerial
expressions that they are interested
in genuine consultation, it will calm
emotions and encourage debate
among what they admit is a pro¬

fession anxious and fearftd about its
future. But senior figures at toe Bar
have been dismayed at toe tenor of
some of toe criticisms by Conser¬
vative backbenchers of their cam¬
paign of opposition to the proposals.

They have been annoyed at

allegations that they are “muzzling”
opposition among banisters to their
campaign and at the claim by a
Conservative MP, Mr Timothy
Devlin, that they are compiling a file
on him and other MPs intended for
use in toe future.

Last night Mr Desmond Fennell,
QC, chairman of toe Bar, would not
comment on toe anger frit among
ban isters «t the claims made in the
House of Commons by Conser¬
vative barrister MPs.

But he said of the allegations that
the Bar was drawing up files; on
MPs: “I am just dismayed they are
being made. They are totally mid
absolutely untrue.”

North Sea
platform
shut after

March against rail link

explosion

By Kerry GOl

modernization rather than a
specific deployment decision.

Mr Kaufman says the
Americans, while wanting a
decision in favour of moderni¬
zation, are “more rational” in
approach than Mrs Thatcher.

The defence team returned
heartened by the commit¬
ments given by toe Ameri¬
cans, led by General Brent
Scowcroft. the national sec¬
urity adviser, that the Bush
administration would build
on the arms control initiatives
of the Reagan era.

Labour's hopes of replacing
its unilateralist policy with
one of negotiated disarma¬
ment. placing Britain’s weap¬
ons into the superpower talks,
were further encouraged by
the meetings in Washington.

Mr Kaufman quotes a se¬
nior Congressman's view that
it would not be possible to
begin another set of negotia¬
tions after the Sian talks on
long-range missiles without ,
bringing in the British and
French weapons.

Gerald Kaufman, page 10 !

An investigation began yes¬
terday after an explosion on a
North Sea gas platform 155
miles north-east of Aberdeen.

More than 300 men on toe
Marathon Brae B installation
were ordered to muster sta¬
tions as rescue helicopters
from the Scottish mainland
and toe North of England were
scrambled.

The platform was later de~
i dared safe. Marathon, toe
platform's operator, said the
alert lasted 45 minutes.

The explosion occurred in
i an electric motor in toe plat¬
form's number four module,
j It is used to export gas
condensates through the Brae-
Forties pipeline to Cruden
Bay. south of Peterhead.

A water deluge system was
automatically set off and
production immediately shut
down. No fire resulted.

Company investigators and
an official front toe Depart¬
ment of Energy went to the
platform early yesterday to
[ begin inquiries. Marathon
said foil production was ex¬
pected to resume over toe
weekend.

The incident comes after a
series of emergencies in the
North Sea oil and gas industry
since Christmas. On Christ¬
mas Eve, fierce storms caused
a storage tanker to break free
from moorings, leading to the
shutdown of three fields. Shell
has been losing up to £1

million a day since the closure
of its Auk and Fulmar fields.
Britoil’s Clyde field was toe
third affected,

lire Brent Delta platform
was shut down on New Year’s
Day, when a vessel in the gas
compression module rup¬
tured. A flash in an oil and gas
tank on toe Ninian Northern
platform caused an alert in
which 145 men were mustered
before h was declared safe.

The West StadriD drilling
rig was ordered to shut down
by toe Depa r t m e n t of Energy
after an inspector discovered a
number of safety defects early
last month.

More than 100 North Sea
workers were airlifted from
toe Dunlin Alpha platform
later when oil pressure sud¬
denly increased in one of toe
drilling wells.

Earlier this month, oil
workers were airiifted from
tip ?Jorh West Hutton plat¬
form when a leak was discov¬
ered in a gas riser connecting
toe installation to toe Western
Leg Gas System, 80 miles
from Shetland.

Meanwhile, toe operation to
topple the remains of
Occidental’s Piper Alpha plat¬
form was postponed yesterday
because of stormy weather, it
may resume tomorrow.

The inquiry into the Piper
Alpha disaster, in which 167
men died last July, is to
resume on April 10.

Peking
tour to

promote

business

Stroeg winds roared Bite a passing expr e ss
train over Smudey recreation ground in Kent
yesterday as more than 2^MM> people inarched
through the town in protest against the
Channel Tonne! high speed rail link (Ronald
Faux writes).

The Bank holiday weather did nothiag to
cool the strength of feeling against British
Rail’s preferred route. In a field on the edge of
town overlooking the point where the link
would emerge into open countryside, speakers
called the fine a destroyer of the en v i ron m ent.

Mr Mark Wotfeos, Conservative MP for
Sevenoaks, Odd the raRy that the battle with
British Ra3 had only jast began. Itshonld now
five op to foe promise to have real consohathm
over changes. “And by changes it mast mean
increased tmmrilfag", he said.

Posters opposing the proposals prolife rated
in a quiet cul-de-sac of detarhed homes
overlooking where the line would surface. One
described a boose there as a “Desirable
residence: Worth mpslmrahte , nine nfl”.

Fusion energy scientists defend their claims

By Pearce Wright, Science Editor

The British and American scientists
who claim to have solved the problem
of harnessing fusion energy, and thus
opened toe door to a limitless source
of power, yesterday defended their
results against the restrained scep¬
ticism of the scientific establishment.

The two scientists. Professor Mar¬
tin Fleischmann of Southampton
University, and Professor Stan Pons,
of the University of Utah, are under
siege because they have released an
outline of their experiments before
publication of the foil details.

The announcement by the Univer¬
sity of Utah contained too few
technical details for an expert in¬
dependent assessment.

Professor Pons, who was a research
student under Professor Fleischmann
at Southampton, said it was an idea

that began “for toe fun of it and to
satisfy scientific curiosity”.

The scientists claim to have
achieved what is known as cold
fusion. Most attempts to achieve
controlled hydrogen fusion have as¬
sumed that hydrogen must first be
heated to a temperature near that of
toe Sun.

The power generated in fusion is
toe huge amount of surplus nudear
energy that is released when two
atoms of a light element, such as
deuterium or tritium, are forced
together to form a heavier one.

Thousands of millions of pounds
have been poured into attempts over
toe past 50 years to harness fusion
energy, toe process that powers the
Sun and provides the destructive
forces of the hydrogen bomb.

It has involved building extraor¬
dinary machines, in which deuterium

gas has first to be heated to tem¬
peratures of more than 10 million
degrees Centigrade. Those incredibly
high temperatures have been readied
in some machines. But scientists have
been unable to sustain a fusion
reaction that mimics toe Sun.

Now the two professors have said
this has been done at room tem¬
perature in a vessel that is comparable
to a car battery. The acid is replaced
by deuterium-contained heavy water
and the plates, or electrodes, between
which toe electric current flows, are
made in the fusion cell from precious
metals, platinum and palladium.

Powerful electric currents cause a
reaction in which deuterium is ab¬
sorbed by toe palladium. The
deuterium atoms then join together,
or fuse, creating a helium atom and a
release of energy.

The sdemists are convinced that

fusion, rather than a conventional
chemical reaction, is happening
because of the very large amounts of
beat released.

Professor Pons said: “We think it
would be reasonable, within a short
number of years, to build an decide
power system”.

However, Professor Fleischmann
said: ”A great deal of work will have ;
to go into this. The processes involved
will have to be carefully checked to see .
if we are right or not. But it does seem
there is here a possibility of realizing ]
sustained fusion with a relatively i
inexpensive device.”

Spokesmen for important fusion
research centres m California, Prince¬
ton. New Jersey, and toe Culbam
Laboratories, near Oxford . were
reluctant to comment formally with¬
out more details. But they ex pre ss e d
private doubts.

By Richard Ford
Ninety-five British barristers
and solicitors are on a mission
to Peking aimed at promoting
their sHfis m commercial law.
Their target is toe growing
business community in China
wishing to make deals with the
West.

Sir Patrick Mayhew, the
Attorney General, has joined
the British team at a con¬
ference dealing with invest¬
ment opportunities and com¬
mercial developments in
China.

His presence, with that of
the Law Society’s president, is
seen as an attempt to impress
on the Chinese the importance
toe British legal profession
attaches to new commercial
opportunities in China.

While in Peking, Sir Patrick
wifl launch a scheme whereby
12 Chinese lawyers will come
to the London School of
Oriental and African Studies
to learn about the English legal
system and, in particular,
international commercial
practice.

The week-long conference is
a joint venture between the
Chinese and the Council of toe
European Bar, but the size of
toe delegation from Britain
reflects "attempts to foster
closer links with the Chinese
and beat competition from
Australian and American
lawyers.

Although few British firms
are exported to open branches
in Peking soon, toe Law
Society wants Chinese com¬
panies involved in business
with the West to choose
English lawyers as their
agents.

A spokesman for the society
said: “The Chinese have en¬
couraged us to look at toe
opportunities to do business
out there”.

Groups from the AB-China
•Lawyers* Association have
been visting toe United King¬
dom for the past two years
looking at the British legal
system, watching Crown and
magistrates* courts at work
and meeting government of¬
ficials.

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velop toe links with China and
toe Law Society believes that
toe Chinese, with little experi¬
ence of international commer¬
cial legal work, have been
impressed with the British
legal system.

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Ulster security talks sought

Mr Tom King; Secretary of
State for Northern Ireland,
was urged last night to call a
meeting of politicians on the
worsening security situation.

Mr John Akierdice. leader
of the middle of the road
Alliance Party, said the latest
outbreak of murders had cre¬
ated an atmosphere of terror
and despair.

It was time representatives
of the constitutional parties
got together to hdp the Gov¬
ernment's fight against terr¬
orism.

Twenty-five people have
been kilted by “loyalist” and
republican para-military
groups in Northern Ireland so
far this year, 14 of them by toe

IRA. The IRA’s victims have
included two senior RUC
officers shot dead on their way
back from a cross-bonier sec¬
urity meeting with the Garda
in Dundalk, a republican
stronghold, on Monday.

Mr Aldeidice said that if
the province’s rival political
leaders could work together to
help to secure toe foture of
Belfast shipyards, there was
no reason why they could not
agree to a round table security
conference.

**lt is time io sit bade and
consider whether we should
not be working together on
behalf of the whole commu¬
nity — not just on economic
matters — but on the vexed

and difficult question of see¬
ing if we can constructively
work with the Government,
and each other, against the
men of violence.”

In Whitehall it was pointed
out that Mr King was always
ready to meet Northern Ire-

land’s constitutional poli¬
ticians to discuss toe way-
ahead.

Any round table conference
would need clear objectives
and adequate preparation, it
was suggested.

It was not dear if the
proposal fora conference was
intended to seek a political
solution or a strengthening 0 f
military effort a gains t terr¬
orism.

No inquiry into scientists 9 deaths

The Ministry of Defence yes¬
terday rated out an inquiry
into the deaths of four sci¬
entists who worked at or had
links with tor Royal Signals
and Radar Establishment at
Malvern. Hereford and Wor¬
cester (Michael Evans writes).

Allegations that their deaths
may have been related to their
radar work were denied.

Dr John Clarke, toe latest
scientist to die. had been
working on microwave re¬
search for four yeas. A former

colleague. Dr Tom Holland,
who died five years ago, had
worked in the same
department.

Both men died of brain
tumours.

The other two to die from
the same causes at the Min¬
istry of Defence research
establishment were Wing
Commander A1 Cushman and
Flight Lieutenant Tony Dun-
more.

The ministry said it was
satisfied that there were

"stringent safety checks" at
toe research facility and there
v^iMmedical evidence to

oi their work environment”.

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aged 44, earlier this month, an
open verdict was recorded
after it was disclosed that
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Barons battle over attracting paying guests

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Mr Peter de Sa vary (left) and the list of forthcoming attractions at “the Land of Littlecote”, his 100-acre estate near Hungerford, and Mr and Mis Kenneth King, beside details of projected events at Avebury Manor.

By Robin Young

Child benefit payment may
stop for better-off mothers

By Sheas Gann, Political Staff

The Government is consid¬
ering stopping the payment of
child benefit to better-off
working mothers.

Ministers, who are drawing
up proposals for the next
election manifesto, are exa¬
mining alternatives to the
commitment to pay it to all
mothers. These include aim¬
ing the benefit at famili es in
need and those in the lower
and middle tax brackets and
even restricting it to non¬
working mothers.

The ministers believe a firm
pledge in the manifesto to give
more help to low-income fam¬
ilies will quell the expected
outcry from many grassroot
Conservatives who want to
retain child benefit as a univ¬
ersal-payment-to all mothers
that is cheap to administer.

Underlying the review is the
almost unanimous recog¬
nition among. Conservative
MPs and party workers that
there is no justification for
mothers in: the higher -lax
bracket getting child benefit

The changes to separate '
taxation for men and women
and the computerization of

benefits will ai«* mak» it
easier to pinpoint those fam¬
ilies in need in the 1990s.

Mr John Moore, Secretary
of State for Social Security, is
not planning a big reform of
th e hwiflfit sys tem b ecause the
last changes took effect only
last year.

But a senior government
source confirmed that all the
different forms and levels of
benefit are biting looked at
with “targeting” foe key word
Thf. main emphask, he said, IS
“to make sure they go to those
in need — and that includes
child benefit”.

CMd benefit has been fro¬
zen at £7.25 per child for the
past two' years. An ann¬
ouncement is expected in
October on .
it in April 1990.

- Although there will ifie
strong pressure from some
Conservatives for Mr Moore
to. raise it next year because
inflation is running at 7.8 per
cent, h is understood that he
will use next month's revolt
on the benefit to test the
strength of foeting before mak¬
ing a final derision. The revolt

will come from a group of
Conservative backbenchers,
led by Mr Timothy Raison,
MP for Aylesbury, and Mr
Robin Squire, MP for Horn¬
church, who have tabled an
amendment to the Social Sec¬
urity Bill calling for child
benefit to rise in line with tax
allowances in April 1990.

Mr Squire said any attempt
by ministers to restrict the
number of families receiving
the benefit would be “politi¬
cally and socially disastrous”.

It would be “lunatic” of the
Government to drop its
commitment in foe next elec¬
tion manifesto. He signed that
targeting foe money on the
low paid will merely create
another disincentive to work
and increase tho poverty trap.

In the 1987 manifesto.'foe'
Conservatives pledged:
“Child benefit will continue to
be paid as now. and direct to
the mother”. But the inter¬
pretation of the controversial
off-the-record briefing by Mr
Nigel Lawson, the Chancellor
of fiie Exchequer, to Sunday
newspaper journalists last
November, was that no

universal benefit, except the
state pension, is sacrosanct.

One objection to breaking
the universality rule is that
only 50 per cent of those
entitled to family credit are
claiming it

Mr Moore has ordered an
extensive advertising cam¬
paign next month, estimated
to cost £7 million, to drive
home to parents on low in¬
comes that they may be en¬
titled to claim family credit,
which is their main income
support since last year’s social
security reforms.

His officials believe those
most in need are already
receiving family credit. But a
better take-up figure will
strengthen foe Government's
case foe limiting child benefit.

" The final fate of child
benefit will also be influenced
by the report from a working
party into all forms of family
support, set up by leading
Conservative women.

The report is expected to
shy away from demanding it is
paid to all mothers regardless
of income after the next
election.

The battle of the property
barons has been joined in
Wiltshire. Mr Pieter de
Savaiy, whose 100-acre estate
at Littlecote near Hangerford
is marketed as -the Land of
Lhtkcote, a ftm capsule of
living history”, is suing Mr
Kenneth King, of Avebury
Manor, near by, for plagiar¬
ism.

Local people say that both
have been riding roughshod
over local history, tradition
ttd planning law.

Mr de Savary, whose prop¬
erty companies own both
Land's End and John o'
Greats, Haims that Mr King
has stolen the ideas and design
for hb promotional booklet,
marketing circular and book¬
ing form from material to
which has copy¬

right. Mr de Savaiy is also
enraged because be believes
Avebury Manor’s announced
plan of special benefits resem¬
bles his own.

Both historic homes are
holding Easter egg hunts this
weekend, an idea Littlecote
admits having borrowed from
Leeds Castle in Kent. On May
1 Littlecote is holding a folk
festival and mystic fair while
at Avebury there is a May Day
celebration and folk festival.

Littlecote is holding a steam
rally and Victorian fair for two
days starting on Jane 3 while
Avebury has a .similar event
the week before. Avebury will
have a fun run when Littlecote
holds its charity race, and in
September both plan vintage
car rallies.

Yesterday was the first day
of opening at Avebnry Manor,
where Mr King faces prosecu¬
tion by Kennet District Coun¬
cil for allegedly altering parts
of his Grade I listed home
without permission.

He has also been served
with 22 enforcement orders for
claimed breaches of planning
law and notices under building

regulations which have pre¬
vented him finishing most of
bis projected schemes.

A couple of years ago it was
Mr de Savary at Littlecote
who was being prosecuted by
Kennet District Council for
starting to bun the estate into
a theme park without planning
permssmn. He paid his fines
and got planning permission
retrospectively. His plans are
now folly realized.

To the consternation of the
villagers in Avebury, who
receive 250,000 visitors every
year to the prehistoric stone
drde which surrounds their
homes, Mr King has ad¬
vertised the manor nationally
and announced that he hopes
to attract 100,000 visitors
paying £3.50 each for adults
and £2.50 for children.

In foe first hour yesterday
be got three. The first coople
through die gates were Mr
Paul Knowler, the Uttlecote's
marketing manager.

NEXT WEEK

Men at
work . . .

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• ...again. Britain’s
roads seem to be in a
permanent state of
disrepair. More than
three million holes
are dug in them every
year, creating
traffic havoc.

• What are ail the
holes for? How well is
the work done?

How can it be better
co-ordinated? Next
week, in a two-part
series, The Times
looks into the

black holes.

• Time to
spare over
Easter? The
Times

Tournament
of the Mind
continues
next week,
with the
questions,
set by Mensa, becoming
more difficult. There is
a £5,000 prize for
the individual winner.
Today’s round: page 29

PORTFOLIO

BOND

• Two people
shared yesterday's
£2,000 Portfolio
Bond prize. They are
Mrs Jean
Josceiyne, of
Winsford, near
Minehead, Somerset,
and Mr H. Garrett,

of Cotton,

Stowmarket

Suffolk.

• Portfolio Bond
resumes on Tuesday
after the Easter
break.

Film tycoon is criticized by ramblers

. By Edward Gorman

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Mr David .Puttnam, foe fifan producer,
is criticizedioday by foe chairman of foe
68,000-member Ram biers’ Association.

Mr Christopher HalL in his foreword
to the annual report, issues a warning
that the space and freedom for the
general public to walk in the countryside
are not increasing.

He says campaigning for more free¬
dom must take second place to battling

to save existing paths, and be attacks
planned government legislation which
could challenge footpaths on the grounds
that they were marked on maps by
mistake. But Mr Hall is most damning of
“foe Puttnam syndrome”.

“As more and and more nouveoux
rustiques move into their quaint old
desirable properties”, Mr Hall writes,
“more of them seek to close or divert
paths passing through or by their
residences, as film tycoon David

Puttnam did last year”.

Mr Hall’s attack comes in the wake of
a public inquiry last April after a long-
running and bitter controversy over an
ancient footpath which runs past the film
producer’s sixteenth century country
retreat at Little Somerford, Wiltshire.

Mr Puttnam. chairman of the Society
for the Protection ofRural England, won
the right to divert the path which he
argued was a threat to his privacy and
security.

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Surgeons outline new heart operation

By Pearce Wright; Science Editor

The first operation in Britain using an
artifical heart made from muscle taken
from the patient's chest is expected to be
carried out before foe end of the year.

Details of the planned treatment win
be outlined by Professor Magdi Yacoub,
the pioneering heart transplant surgeon,
and Mr Charles Pattison, of foe
Brompton Hospital and National Heart
and Lung Institute, at an international
conference, Carchology '89, in London
next month.

It has become possible because of a
discovery by a Britisb-American re¬
search team led by Professor Larry
Steohensoh, at the University of Penn¬
sylvania; and Professor Stanley Salmons,
of Liverpool University.

The idea of using a patient's own
skeletal muscle to repaira damaged heart

was first considered 25 years ago. In
theory, it offered an ideal answer to the
problem of tissue rejection of donated
organs; and skeletal muscle (the muscle
attached to the bones) is much stronger
than, its counterpart in foe heart.

But heart muscle is far more fatigue
resistant, enabling a healthy organ to
beat non-stop about two and half billion
times in a lifetime—100,000 times every
24 hours to drcolate almost 2,000
gallons of blood a day.

Skeletal mnsde would get cramp
under such a burden, so the need for a
tireless type of muscle tissue thwarted
early efforts to adapt it for grafting.

The possibilities were revived when
Professor Salmon and his colleagues
developed a process for conditioning
skeletal muscle so that it could be
adapted for foe heart's sustained pump¬

ing woik. The conditioning, which takes
six weeks, makes the skeletal muscle
capable of continual contraction.

The work on conditioning, funded by
the British Heart Foundation and the
United States National Institute of
Health, has enabled heart surgeons to
devise several new approaches to
remedying heart defects, which have
been successful in treating anim a l s.

One of foe simpler methods of using
skeletal muscle, to be described to foe
conference, is to wrap one end of muscle
from the chest wall around part of the
failing bean. The other end remains
attached to its blood and nerve supplies
and is stimulated by a special pacemaker.

A more difficult approach, being per¬
fected by Professor Salmon’s group, is
the fabrication of a complete chamber of
the bean from the non-organ tissue.

Evergreen Mini all set for a lead-free future

By Kevin Eason, Motoring Correspondent

The Mini has been given a new lease of
life by foe switch to unleaded petrol —
and improved fuel consumption figures *
mean the car could turn out to be an
“evergreen”. _ ; ;

The car, which celebrates its thirtieth
anniversary this year, is foe cheapest to
run in Britain using the new dean fuel. _
From this month, versions of foe Mini
have been retuned on foe assembly lines
at Longbridge, Birmingham, to run on
unleaded without further adjustment.

Critics had said performance and fuel
economy could be impaired by unleaded
petrol but Longbridge engineers have
produced figures to show that, the Mini is
even more economical on the dean fiiel.-
The automatic version of foe Mini will
now top--50 miles to foe gallon on

unleaded compared with 46.1 rapg on
leaded ala constant speed of 56mph. For
urban motoring, the manual will do
46.1 rapg compared with old figures of
45 Jrapg. «

Rover said last night that foe Mini was
already foe cheapest car on foe road
costing 15.18p a mile to run more than
20,000 miles on. leaded fuel.

.. The introduction of unleaded versions
would make it even better value, the
company said.

A spokesman said: “The use of
unleaded petrol has been designed into
foe Mini which is why there lave been
these substantial performance improve¬
ments. .

“It is still astonishing though that a 30-
year-old car . can outperform its rivals

after all this time." The Mini has faced
the prospect of being phased out for foe
past decade.

But with production at Longbridge
running at 800-a-week and the model a
cuh in important export markets such as
France and Japan, foe car looks set to
keep going on.

Meanwhile, scientists at BP are study¬
ing a plan to produce a petrol which
could be used by cars not able to lake
fully unleaded fuel and which would cut
lead emissions by 25 per cenL

The believe that producing a petrol
which is a mix of leaded and unleaded
fuel would overcome foe problems of
some cars which, although adjusted for
unleaded petrol, still have periodically to
use leaded to reduce engine wear.

Magic

The Little People of Irish folklore may
have sprang not from myth bHt from the
baludnatory effects of the, so-called
«magfc mushroom” psilocy&e semlmee-
gttu consumed two centuries ago by
pea sants |a erode hot houses..

That nmromantic notion, ranking foe
fey spirits of Ireland with pink elephants
and‘Unidentified flying objects, comes in
the spring issue of Artkaafagylreungm
an article entitled ^Sweafoonses: Puz¬
zling and Disappearing” t

Mr Anthony Weir, specialist in early
Ireland and its history, laments that foe
stone-built sweafoooses found to Lo
Leitrim have become endangered band¬
ings because they are unprotected in tne
republic*

Only two P*werved as amenities m

Northern Ireland.

According to Weir foeywere ns»«
primitive saunas by the peasantry

By Ronald Faux

throughout Ireland and may hare been
connected with the consumption of foe
“magic mushrooms”.

Soon after BosweO and Johnson strode
through the Scottish Highlands and were
divided in their view of whatfoey found, a
Frenchmaii»MLatocaaye, walked across
Ireland and recorded the first description
of a sweafoouse in Co Donegal.

. . It was a bafiding with a social purpose,
heated like an oven and used as a cure for

rheumatic pains and other diseases.
“They heath with turf m foe way such a
construction would be heated for foe
purpose Of baking bread”, M Latocnaye
wrote. ■■

W1kb ft was hoi^ four or five men Or
women, eafody naked, crept in through
a little opening which was immediately
dosed with a piece of wood covered with
dung. They remained sealed in For four
os fire hoars. One theory suggested that

the sweafoonses were a legacy of the
V ikings although that tiketiboed had
been rather discounted by the absence of
sweatitonses in the western isles of
Scotland, where foe Norse infinence was
particularly strong.

Certainly, sweating ceremonies were
known to hare beea bdd in Siberia in
traditional circular tents where the Fly
Agaric mushroom was also consumed.
Mr Weir points out that Irish sweat
houses were most popular in autumn
when foe “magic mushrooms” were
. abundant

Hence the notion dial the Little People
of Irish foUdore conld be descended from
the mists of halucmation rather fan
time.

Mr War said that even yotmg Irish¬
men he had talked to who had taken foe
magic mushrooms afterwards believed
they could see fairies.

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THE TIMES SATURDAY MARCH 25 1989

Public confiision rises on salmonella crisis

Ministry officials refuse
to clarify food checklist

By David Nkboison-Lord

The Government's informa¬
tion service has refused to
respond to a 20-point food
safety checklist put to it by
The Times , claiming the
information is already in the
“public domain”.

The checklist sought to
clarify public statements made
during the recent salmonella
controversy. Public access to
the facts can be measured by
the Consumers' Association's
reaction to the checklist Of
the 20 statements, it had
sufficient information to pass
comment on only six* while
questioning a seventh.

The Department of Health's
and Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food's refusal to
clarify points is all the more
surprising as it comes after an
attack in Parliament by a
junior minister and a senior
Conservative backbencher on
“knowalls and busy-bodies”
accused of scaremongering.

It also coincides with a poll
by the National Consumer
Council showing that a third
of consumers feel they do not
have enough information to

be confident about the food
they boy. Nearly two thirds
believe the Government
should be providing that
information.

The attitudes of the depart¬
ment and the ministry have
been criticized by the Con¬
sumers' Association, the Lon¬
don Food Commission and
the NCC, which said the
ministries had “dearly failed”
in their duty to consumers.

The Times's request for
clarification was made after
Mr Richard Ryder, Par¬
liamentary Secretary for Agri¬
culture, Fisheries and Food,
and Mr Jerry Wiggin, chair¬
man of the select committee
on agriculture, criticized tele¬
vision and some food experts
for disseminating propaganda
and “flimsy advice”.

The Ministry of Agriculture
said: “We have said it all
many times before”. The
Department of Health said the
information was “all out
there" but refused to allow a
Times reporter to visit its
information office to be
shown where the data were

available. Eventually, the
ministries relented on one of
the 20 points. After repeated
requests, they denied a state¬
ment that the salmonella epi¬
demic started with imports of
fish meal.

The Ministry of Agriculture
said information could be
found in the joint memoran¬
dum submitted to the select
committee on agriculture by
the ministry and the Depart¬
ment of Health. E xamina tion
of the document shows that to
be far from true.4adeed, the
memorandum was said by the
committee to put “a conve¬
nient gloss on events".

Another course recom¬
mended by the ministries was
to consult the committee's
371-page report and evidence
— available at £20.10.

Ms Anna Bradley, bead of
the Consumers' Association's
food and health group, said:
“Given the degree of con¬
sumer confusion over food,
the Government is honour
bound to take every opportu¬
nity to clarify the situation.”
She said she suspected that

much important information
was not in the public domain.

Before the salmonella-in¬
eggs controversy, most of the
information on salmonella
and eggs was not public “We
asked to see it and were told
na” I

The situation had im¬
proved, but much informa¬
tion remained confidential
Examples included commit-,
nicable reports issued 1
by the Public Health Lab-1
oratory Service.

Dr Tim Lang, director of
the London Food Com¬
mission, described the min¬
istries' refusal to respond 10
the checklist as deeply regret¬
table and evidence of a new
policy of official silence. He
«iH many organizations had
foiled to girt adequate informa¬
tion from the ministries.

“They are saying nothing
and hoping ft will all go away.
Ministries that should be
answerable to the public and
which are paid for by you and
me are refusing to clarify
genuine causes of public
concern.”

Questions that cannot be answered

The checklist and Consumers' Associ¬
ation answers are as follows:
lire Times: Britain is feeing the worst
salmonella epidemic on record.
Consumers' Association: This is an acad¬
emic question: what constitutes an
epidemic?

T: One egg m 7,000 is infected with
salmonella.

CA: We don’t know.

T: At least one person a week dies from
eating salmonella-infected eggs.

CA: We don't know.

T: Although people are eating fewer eggs
and probably cooking them longer,
salmonella poisoning is increasing by IS
per cent compared with last year.

C.4: We don’t know.

T: The true incidence of salmonella
poisoning may be 100 times the number
of reported cases.

CA: Yes — or it may be as little as JO
times.

T: The salmonella epidemic began a dec¬
ade ago with cheap imports of South
American fish meal.

CA: We don't know.

T: Scientific advisers tried to introduce
safeguards then, but because of pressure
from industry, coupled with the extra

cost of properly sterilizing the feed, the
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and
Food rejected their advice.

CA: Yes — we understand that to be the
case.

T: Salmonella enteritidis cases increased
six-fold between 1982 and 1987, yet no
action was taken until late in 1988.

CA: We don't know.

T: One in five UK flocks is heavily
infected.

CA: We don’t know.

T: Very few flocks infected with salmo¬
nella have been destroyed.

CA: We don 1 know.

T: There were no prosecutions after a
ministry survey in 1987 found that a
quarter of protein processing plants were
infected.

CA: We don’t know.

T: A contributory factor to the spread of
salmonella enteritidis phase four was
diseased chicken carcasses in chicken
feed. Such carcasses are still used.

CA: Ter, tve understand this to be true.
T: No research has been done to confirm
the claim that free-range eggs are more
liable to be infected with salmonella.
CA: Not exactly: no proven research has
been carried ouL

T: The UK breeding flock is genetically
inbred and this is linked to the spread of
salmonella enteritidis.

CA: We don’t know.

T: Bacteria capable of growth in refrig¬
erated foods may be responsible for up to
40 per cent of food poisoning in Britain.
CA: We don’t know.

T: Most fridges operate at temperatures
conducive to the growth oflisieria.

CA: Yes, this is probably true.

T: The cook-chill system recommended
by the Department of Health is vulner¬
able to listeria infection and extending it
to hospitals poses dangers for people in a
high-risk category.

CA: Yes, this is probably true.

T: The department has repeatedly reject¬
ed evidence linking listeria in food to
the rising incidence of listeriosis.

CA: We don't know.

T: The Agricultural and Food Research
Council has cut its workforce by a third
and is preparing to lay off more staff, and
cut food research by £2 .1 million a year.
CA: We don’t know.

T: Only f 0 per cent of British abattoirs
meet licensing requirements to export
meat to other EEC countries.

CA: We don’t know.

For the first time in 16 centuries, the Roman forts of Arbeta, In Sooth Shields, Tyne and
Weal, are to be patrolled by guards in Roman regatta. A group calling itself Cohoes Quinta
Gallonm has been established by Sooth Tyneside conned mid goes on duty today at the
third century military settlement. On guard are Miss Alex Croom (centre), the cohort
secretary, and (from left) Danny Luther, Pan! Carrich and Kerin Inkster.

Union’s equality action plan

. By Roland Radd, Employment Affairs Reporter

The National Union of Civil
and Public Servants is asking
its members to endorse a
controversial programme of
positive action for women,
ethnic minorites and homo¬
sexuals.

The executive of the sec¬
ond-biggest Civil Service
union announced yesterday
that it will put the action plan
to a national vote at its annual
conference in May.

Union officials want gov¬
ernment deportments to nego¬

tiate agreements ensuring the
prevention of sexual harass¬
ment, making ft a disciplinary
offence.

The officials say child-care
provision needs to be im¬
proved as a matter of urgency,
with a comprehensive net¬
work in place within five
years. Maternity leave should
be extended immediately to
18 weeks.

Under the proposals, all
reporting officers will be
trained to avoid making

discriminatory assumptions.
Programmes win be devel¬
oped to ensure that people
from ethnic minorities are
recruited and promoted to all
grades in the Civil Service.

The union officials want ail
Civil Service posts opened to
those who have disabilities.
Managers and employees will
also be asked, to indude
consideration of issues affect¬
ing lesbians and gay men, with
partners’ rights recognized for
all employees.

Fowler is
accused
over TV
unions

By Kerin Eason ■

The Government was accused
last night of suppressing a
report by the Monopolies and
Mergers Commission claimed
to clear film and tetevisfon
unions of restrictive labour
practices. .___

Mr Norman Wiflis, TUC
general secretary, said the i I-
month inquiry amounted to
an embarrassing “dap in the
face” for the Government.

Ministers took the unprece¬
dented step of calling the
commission last March after
criticizing tire film • and tele¬
vision industry for being the
~)ast bastion of trades union
restrictive practices”.

The investigation came

after disputes including a year¬
long strike by techmcians’at
TV-am. At least seven unions
were interviewed.

They included the Mu¬
sicians' Union, the~ actors*
union. Equity, and the two
most powerful in the industry
— the Broadcasting and Enter¬
tainment Trades Alliance,
which has 30.000 members,
and the Association of Cine¬
matograph, Television and
Allied Technicians, with
28 , 000 .

The report was delivered to
Mr Norman Fowler, Secretary
of State for Employment, in
February. The Department of
Employment confirmed yes¬
terday that he was considering
the findings.

However, Mr Willis chal¬
lenged Mr Fowler 10 publish
tire report immediately to
reveal its conclusions on lab¬
our practices in tire industry
and in particular the post¬
entry closed shop.

Film and television is a key
area, still operating com¬
pulsory union membership for
workers joining the industry.

TUC leaders say that tire
Government pre-empted the
commission's report by issu¬
ing its Green Paper, Removing
Barriers to Employment, with¬
out releasing the commission
findings for discussion first

Mr Willis, in a letter to Mr
Fowler, said: “Hie report has
been in your possession for six
weeks. Its conclusions are of
vital and direct relevance to
the issues now being advanced
in the Green Paper.

“I hope you publish it
without delay. In present cir¬
cumstances, the Government
stands accused of suppressing
a report which contradicts its
earlier claims.”

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rear that tne lecturers umon Teacherswere toU by imion exams and that the university

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‘best documentary’

By Richard Evans, Media Editor

to the national executive of Union of Teachers b^ere that
the Trades Union Congress, their cause has been badly
many lecturers are unwilling damaged by what they see as.
to contmta the boycott, which the irresponsible behaviour of

roeihods”

. A number of local unions
have adopted a mere mod-

theircaiise las teen badly era re stance. The local
damaged by what they see *& branches of the universities of

threatens the careers of70,000
students due to sit finals this
summer.

The Professional - Associ¬
ation of Teachers, which dou¬
bled its membership to more
than 40,000 between 1982 and
1987 as a.result ofdisaffection
with striking teachers, said
yesterday there had been a
“substantial increase rn the
level of interest in jo ining
from academics”.

Dr John Andrews, the.
association's assistant general
secretary, has had more than
500 enquiries from academics
in the past few weeks.

“That might not sound very

much but since we have only a. would be less damaging to
handful of university acadon- students,
ics on our books, the increase Members of lbe Association

is startling” 1 , he said. of University Teachers will

The association recently vote on whether to continue
launched a recruiting drive in the boycott on April 17. An
the tertiary education sector, increasing number of tmiver-
Dr Andrews said the the sitiesure making contingency
Association of University plans to award degrees whh-
Teacbers' executive rejection out examinations — though
of a 6 per cent pay oner for some are unable to do so
1989-90 and 0.5 per cent for because of restrictive univer-
last year was “perfect for our sity statutes and charters,
recruiting campaign”. / : The 1 National Union of

However, several regional Students rejected the award of
offices of the AOT reported degrees by panels of assessors
that more academics had cbo- oron the basis of course work
sen to join the union than had because those involved meth-
left because of the exam ods for wbidi students bad not
boycott This week the Nat- prepared, .
ional Union of Students an- Bath University said yes-
nounced that while it sup- today that staff in several

lbe irresponsible behaviour of Oxford and Cambridge have
some teachers. agreedtoset finaland oiher

On the eve of foe conference summer examinations but will
which opens in Blackpool wifooM marks white foe dis-
today, Mr Doug McAroy, puie continues. '
general secretory designate, ^t Surrey, a senior unhna>
saM;. " would hope th at there . <nty source said discusaona
can be a- greater unity, . over the recent pay offer were
recogpioiig as ire maul that “very amicable'* and
political factions weaken the .examinations were expected
voke of the union in dis- to go ahead as normal. At
cussions with government, York, Newcastle, London,
governors and employers”. Leicester. Belfast and

1 . . . ■ ■ Bradford, spokesmen said the

ported the academics'case for deadlines for summer
more pay, other options were , examj u® non ? w ^ rc t ^ sla ° t
open to dons, snS» setting

but not marking examinations ° f *

and taking strike action, which ^ eclnrera ballOL

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would be less damag in g to - - This week Leeds University
students. students were sent borne with

Members of lbe Association a tetter from Mr JJ Walsh, the
of University Teachers will ™uversity registrar, advising i
vote on whether to continue them that if the boycott:
the boycott on April 17. An continued there was no prao-
increaang number of mriver- tical wayof awarding degrees
sitiesare making contingency andthatdamage to the careers
plans to award degrees with- ®* graduates would be
oat examinations — though PC’^naoenL
some are unable to do so -Nottingham University
because of restrictive tmiver- said its finalists might find
sity statutes and charters. themselves in . a similar

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similar

The National Union of position.

Students rejected the award of While dons at St Andrews
degrees by panels of assessors have accepted the vice-chan-
oronthe baas of course work cellors* offer, Liverpool, Edin-
because those involved meth- burgh, Glasgow, Manchester,
ods for which students had not Bristol, Keele, Birmingham

and Warwick all plan to allow

Bath University said yes- degrees to be awarded by
terday that staff in several external examiners.

Louise Vines, the artist, perching on a ladder, dwarfed by the mighty oak tree she has just
finis bed painting on the side of anouse in Poland Street in Soho, central London, where the
poet Shelley once lived. Her painting , inspired by Shelley's “Ode to the West Wind", is the
first work of its kind to be painted on a listed building in London. The painting, 48ft by 34ft,
has the support of English Heritage, The Soho Society and Westminster Arts Conned. It
complements the architectural features of the building and the snrroundmg area.

Three radio and television
programmes that have infuri¬
ated the Government were
awarded broadcasting journal¬
ism prizes yesterday.

“Death on the Rock",
Tumbledown, and My Coun¬
try, Right or Wrong were
honoured by the Broadcasting
Press Guild, whose 90 mem¬
bers write about television
and radio in the national,
regional and trade press.

“Death on the Rock", the
Thames Television docu¬
mentary about the killing of
three IRA terrorists in Gibral¬
tar, was screened in spite of
vehement protests by the
Government

The programme, which was
cleared of most ministerial
criticisms by an independent
inquiry, was voted lbe best
single documentary.

Tumbledown, lbe dram¬
atized story of Lieutenant
Robert Lawrence, badly in¬
jured in the Falkland^, was
I bitterly criticized by the Min¬
istry of Defence and shown by
the BBC only after editing. It
was voted best single drama.

Both programmes won
awards last Sunday from the
British Academy of Film and
Television Arts (Bafta) in
London.

My Country. Right or
Wrong, a BBC Radio 4 series
about the British security
system, attracted an injunc¬
tion brought by the Attorney
General, which delayed trans¬
mission — although the pro¬
grammes had been passed by
the D-Notice Committee.

The Broadcasting Press
Guild said the series made an
outstanding contribution to
radio.

Channel 4’s drama series. A
Very British Coup, about the
security services' efforts to

oust a left-wing British Prime
Minister, was voted best
drama series. Ray McAnally,
who played the Prime Min¬
ister, was named best odor.

The laic Radio 2 presenter
Ray Moore was given a
posthumous award for the
pleasure and entertainment he
gave to his listeners.

• The RSPCA has protested
to the producers of East-
Enders for the “casual treat¬
ment" of dog fighting in the
soap opera.

Ali and Mehmei Osman,
two characters in the series,
were seen with American pit
bull terriers in a recent epi¬
sode, Mr Gavin Grant, the
charity's public relations
director, said yesterday.

“Apart from one or two
expressions of distaste, there
has been no condemnation
from the residents of Albert
Square and far from there
being any legal retribution, the
only outcome seems to have
been a win of several hundred
pounds by Mehmei", he
added.

He has written to Mr Mike
Gibbon, the producer of East-
Enders, complaining about
the portrayal of dogfighting.

“In a series that has dealt
sensitively with other criminal
activities such as rape and
murder, where the perpetrator
has paid the penalty for his
crime, it is unbelievable that
dog fighting is being featured
as apparently no more than a
slightly suspect hobby", Mr
Grant said.

The RSPCA wants the East-
End ers production team to
develop the story to a proper
conclusion so viewers will be
in no doubt about the barbar¬
ity of dog fighting and the legal
penalties For becoming in¬
volved.

Teacher wins time-off battle £250,000 quest to design ‘thinking’ computer

A schoolteacher ought to fotve
been allowed time off to
attend an importaza Union
meeting, an industrial tribunal.
ruled in Glasgow yesterday^

The tribunal beard that
Central * Regional Gotmdrs.
education department had re¬
fused Mr Roy Robertson, an
official of the National ‘Union
of Schoolteachers and Union
of Women Teachers, • per- '
mission to attend the meeting
last Augustus it woaldchaver
been disruptive to pupils -af r
the start of the schckd^nOo.

His employers alsosaidthat ,
the refusal was because, Mr
Robertson had already had .a
considerable amount .of time

ByKenrGill

off He was seeking a ruling by
the tribunal that he was
entitled to time off on August
25 last year underlie Employ¬
ment Protection (Consolida-
tioh) Act T978. "

The council argued that the.
NUS/UWT- was . nqt a rec¬
ognized trade union in;,the
terms of the Act ...

However, the tribunal ruled
that the union was recognized
by the education authority
and. represented oil the Scoir
tisb Joint Negotiating Com-
mxttee, ihe national negotia-
ting.bbd& v ;.

. A department official also
©ive evidence saying that he
woukfexpect MrRobersicm to -

By Robert Matthews, Technology Correspondent

represent his members at
disciplinary proceedings..

The union asked the council
to allow Mr Robertson, a
teacher at Alva Primary
School, to attend a meeting on
n staffing review and proposed
legislation for school boards.

Mr Aldx Watson, ;depuie
director of education, said if
the meeting were so im¬
portant. it conld have been
held in the. summer holidays.

. The tribunal said that over
the past five years Mr Robert¬
son had been ^ven time off to
attend union meetings at pre¬
cisely the same time It ruled
that the request for time off
should have been granted.

British scientists have been awarded a
government contract to design a
machine that can mimic the human
mind to solve problems.

Researchers at Imperial College,

. London, have been given £250,000 by
the Department of Trade and In-
dusiry to develop microchips which
consist of thousands of circuits that
are interconnected like brain cells.

These electronic equivalents of
brain cells are called neural networks.

Under the three-year contract a
number of special neural networks
will be designed and interlinked to
create a neural computer. The project
has gone to an internationally rec¬
ognized pioneering research team
working with Professor Igor
Aleksander. Their research has fo¬

cused on ways of devising new
machines that solve problems that are
difficult even for existing
supercomputers such as image recog¬
nition, which includes recognizing
feces or identifying the geographical
features on a map.

With their so-called “number-
crunching’’ power..modem .comput¬
ers carry out- millions of complex
calculations a second. But it is of little
use in trying to imitate the way people
form a visual image in their mind
from picturing the signals they receive
from the eye.

Professor Aleksander was one of the
team of British scientists who first
demonstrated a practical “neural
computer", the Wisard, which was
able to pick out engineering compo¬

nents from a production line after
being trained what to look for, like a
human quality control engineer.

Research into neural computing is
now a multi-million pound scientific
endeavour, with scientists in the
United Stales and Japan working hard
to bring more “thinking” computers
into the commercial market place.

However, the majority of the
research has concentrated on turning
conventional computers into neural
computers by feeding them with
suitable computer programs.

Professor Aleksander has made a
special study of a type of neural
computer in which simple electronic
components are used to take the place
of the brain cells, or neurons, that
make up the human mind. Now the

DTI has decided to fund his team to
make the microchips necessary to
build a sophisticated neural net
capable of solving problems which
would be all but impossible to solve
using conventional computers.

One of the projects being funded is
to design a neural computer with the
. equivalent of 16 million “brain cells".

Although containing for fewer than
the number of neurons in the human
brain, such a machine is likely to be
. capable of solving some human-like
tasks, such as recognizing an object
when only part is shown to lbe
machine via a television camera.

Neural nets have the unique ability
to work from incomplete or even
partially incorrect data, and still carry
out tasks accurately.

Green Belt test case

Medieval city fighting to keep ahead

By Michael McCarthy, Environment Correspondent

A battle between industrial
apd environmental interests is
developing for tbe future of
the historic city of Chester. ;

The conflict, whoSe out¬
come is likely to have wide-
ranging national imptications
for the ftiture of ihe Green
Belt, arises from the tension
between the city’s old identity
as a jewel of Britain's heritage,
with its Roman walls and
medieval shops, and its new
one as the most successful
northern example of foe
Thatdterite. industrial revolu¬
tion. . '

Conservative and Labour
members of the city, council
are likely to unite to figfat the
decision of-a Department of
the Environment planning in¬
spector that 1,000 acres of.
Green Bell land in the Chesh¬
ire countryside aroundIhe city
must not be taken fbr bousing
and proposed mdustrial dev¬
elopment that would include a
high-tech business park likely
to produce .up to 1,000 new
jobs.'

The inspector, whose de¬
cision was announced this
week, shares the feefing of the
Council for the Protection of
Rural England, and of Cftes-
ler’s Social and Liberal Demo¬
crats, that the plan would be
the beginning ot the end of the
city’s historic character.

Bui the leaders of the city
council, who believe that the
plan is essential to maintain
the impetus of their economic
growth, say .that the inspec¬
tors decision is disastrous and
Hat they wall tiy to have it
overturned:

Should they do. so, they may
find themselves challenged by
the CPRE in foe High Court.

The matter will eventually
laud on:the desk of Mr
Nicholas Ridley, Secretary of
State for the -Environment,
and'will -present him with the
most difficult case: yet of the

resistance-to-developrtent

syndrome he named Nimby-
not m'mybackyard' ' ■ _

Theacuteness of ihe^ofltj
over foe city antes.from foe
strength of each of its twm

identities, ancient and moa-

em. .-. - ’ ' -■

The Roman Deva was for
300 years headquarters of the
twentieth fegfon — J. alerta
Victrix, the Conquering Va-

. still preserves many Roman
remains. With' the river Dee
frowing through the city, the
Cheshire countryside creeping
right up to it, and. the moun¬
tains of North Wales a few
miles away, the cathedral city
is not only a prime tourist
attraction but one of the most
agreeable plates to Uve in the
North, and . that has un¬
doubtedly been a principal
factor in its- recent economic

in foe South: this is where, in
the North, foe Thatcher en¬
trepreneurial revolution has
“trickled down to” in the way
the present Government has
always hoped.

It is foe ' rejection, an¬
nounced this week after.a
publicinquiry by Mr L J Gray,
a Department of the Environ¬
ment inspector, of the city's
next economic move forward
—the Chester local plan—that
has put Chester’s exciting

Time to celebrate

ANDY WATTS

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Delighted protested celebrate the reprieve of the George Hotel,
Naiteworth, Gloucestershire, after Stroud District Council
voiced (o indofeit in an extended conservation area. McCarthy
& Stone, owners of the.handsome 1840s budding, want to

week by the council and the oonservation group, Save Britain's
Heritage, to spot-list it as of historical and architectural interest
were rriected by .the Historic Beddings and Monuments

boar — modem Chester

foe roof and staged i» fliHn* McCarthy & Stone said they had
received a letter from foe council oa^ March 8 approving

future on collision course with
ite magnificent past.

The. plan balled .for 30Q.
does immediately, and a fur¬
ther 700 acres later on, to be
removed from foe Green Belt
around foe city for housing
and industrial development:

. The latter would include a
high-technology business park
near foe MS3 which links
Chester with Liverpool and
the national motoiway nei-
work which it was hoped
would provide up to’ 1,000
new jobs.

But the inspector stated;

- Companies -such as Marias
&■ Spencer’s financial services:
arm and Shell Chemicals have
relocated to Chester, bringing
thousands of new jobs in the
past-four yters to an area that
has sharedfoe lugljiiiiemjAtyi
ment rates of another; grim- :

mer neighbour,-Merseyside.

Local wtempiq)^
been cut front 1 18 to l4 pet",
cent -and is still, felling, and
even xnoreimportantfOT bus-
pete confidence,;-the city is
getting a reputation as a
modern industrial boom town
roch as Reading or Cambridge

“No exceptional cireu rosi a n -
ces have been demonstrated
for the large-scale alterations
to foe detailed Green Belt
boundaries' defined in foe
adopted local plan and which.
I believe, would have an
adverse effect on foe character
of foe historic city."

The decision delighted foe
Council for the Protection of
Rural England, which had
early on identified foe nat¬
ional implications of foe situa¬
tion in Chester.

“This is sweet justice for a
northern Green Belt griev¬
ously assaulted by foe au¬
thority charged with foe duty
of protecting it”, Mr Andrew
Purkis, CPRFs director, said.

Mr Purkis added; “Chester
City Council must bow to
independent opinion and
withdraw its grandiose plans
to allow foe city to sprawl
outwards".

Chester City Council does
not see it that way. Mr
Richard Short, leader-elect of
foe 30-member controlling
Tray group, said: “^Vhat this
decision means is stagnation
for Chester. It means the loss
of tremendous opportunities
tor jobs and housing for our
young people, unless it is
overturned.

“I do not doubt that people
inChester once objected to the
Romans changing to the Sax¬
ons, and then foe Middle Ages
changing to foe Elizabethans,
bur ft had to happen because
the world does not stand stilL
We have got to go forward and
we will fight this decision."

. Mr John Price, his opposite
number on the Labour
benches, said: “We are bitterly
disappointed. We want Ches¬
ter to continue to be a boom
town.” .

■ But although foe 30-strong
Tory and 18-strong Labour
groups on the 60-member
council (there is one indepen¬
dent) are. likely to present a
united front, the council is not
unanimous.

_. The 11 Democratyfoink foe

inspector is right
-_The Chester local plan will
nowgo back to foe city council
for reconsideration in the tight
of the inspector’s comments,
which, however, are not
binding;

The council may ignore
them. If it does, it will lave a
fight bn fts.hands.

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THE T*McS SATURDAY MARCH 25 1989

Bush signs ‘gentlemen’s agreement’

Accord gives Contra rebels
a year’s non-military aid

From Christopher Thomas, Washington

President Bush and congres¬
sional leaders yesterday signed
a far-reaching agreement lay¬
ing Out a bipartisan Central
American policy under which
the Nicaraguan Contras, a
battered army without bullets
to fight, will receive non-
military funding to keep them
intact until next February.

The accord followed three
weeks of intensive negotia¬
tions between Mr James
Baker, the Secretary of Slate,
and congressional leaders of
both parties. It was signed in
the White House, with Presi¬
dent Bush saying that it
marked the fulfilment of his
pledge to pursue a bipartisan
foreign policy.

The moderate tone of bis
remarks was a far cry from the
belligerent position adopted
by former President Reagan.
He spoke optimistically about
the prospects for democracy in
Central America, with re¬
sources devoted to social ends
instead of military defence.

He challenged the San-
dinista Government of Nica¬
ragua to comply with its
promises of democracy. And
he added pointedly that Mos¬
cow had an obligation to
demonstrate its new thinking.

“In Central America, what
we have seen to date is only
old thinking. The Soviet
Union has no legitimate sec¬

urity interests in Central
America. The United Stales
has many. We reject any
doctrine of equivalence in the
region. The Soviet Union and
Cuba have an obligation to
slop violating the provisions
of the Esquibulas accord.'’ he
declared.

In large measure, the Con¬
tras owe their continued sur¬
vival to the Honduran Gov¬
ernment, which wants the
rebels off its territory. But
eventually it relented under
US pressure to let them re¬
main in the jungle region
along the southern border
with Nicaragua.

It is the first time that
Democrats and Republicans
have agreed a dear-cut policy
towards the rebels, believed to
number more than 10,000.
who grew into the most lav¬
ishly funded guerrilla group
that Central America has

known, thanks to the Reagan
Administration.

The tentative plan is to give
the rebels about $4,5 million
(£2.6 million! a month —
roughly what they are receiv¬
ing under present US funding
levels — to provide food,
clothing, shelter and medical
supplies. The cm-ofT date
coincides with elections prom¬
ised by Nicaragua.

The plan will be subject to
congressional review in No¬
vember. Any one of four
relevant congressional com¬
mittees could veto the aid
then if they concluded that the
Administration was not acting
in good faith to promote a
peace settlement.

The Contras lost US mili¬
tary aid in February 1938.
They have gradually retreated
since to base camps in Hon¬
duras, awaiting political de¬
velopments in Washington,

Strong protest by Dutch

The Hague (AP) — The Netherlands has issued a “strong
protest” to El Salvador over the fading of a Dutch cameraman
covering the Salvadorean elections, a Foreign Ministry
spokesman said yesterday.

Cornel Lagroow, whose body arrived home early yesterday,
died five days ago in cro ssfi r e between left-wing guerrillas ami
government troops. The Dutch Foreign Minister, Mr Hans van
den Broelc, told the Salvadorean Ambassador, Sedor Rafael
Zalvidar Brizuela, that a p reliminary rep ort by the Salvadorean
Army on the incident was “insufficient”.

getting six-mocth non-mili¬
tary aid packages. The present
allocation expires at the end of
the month.

The new accord is essen¬
tially the product of negotia¬
tions between Mr Baker and
Mr Jim Wright the Democrat
Speaker of the House of
Rcpresen tali ve& who has
taken a keen personal interest
in the Contra issue. Congres¬
sional Democrats are ada¬
mant that the rebels will not
receive further military assis¬
tance from the US.

President Bush met Demo¬
cratic and Republican leaders
of the Senate and the House of
Representatives in the While
House yesterday to discuss
details of the pact, which is
being described as a “gentle¬
men's agreement" without
force of law.

One crucial condition of the
agreement is that aid will be
halted immediately if the
Contras attempt combat op¬
erations against Nicaragua or
mount cross-border raids.

The new aid contains pro¬
vision for resettling Contras
wanting to return home
“under safe and democratic
conditions" — meeting a call
by Central American presi¬
dents last month for “volun¬
tary demobilization, repatria¬
tion or relocation" of rebels in
Honduras.

A military eye on the Via Dol orosa

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Camp David treaty endures despite 10 years of false hopes

From Richard Owen
Jerusalem

Anwar Sadat the former President
of Egypt, is long dead, shot by
Islamic fundamentalists at a mili¬
tary parade in Cairo in 1981
because he had dared to sign a
peace treaty with Israel two years
earlier.

MrMenachem Begin, the former
Israeli Prime Minister and Sadai's
co-signatory, is a recluse and has
refused to comment on politics
since his sudden retirement in 1983
in the aftermath of Israel's disas¬
trous decision to invade Lebanon.

But. tinged though it may be
with disappointment and false
hopes, the treaty endures, and
tomorrow marks its tenth anniver¬
sary. But there will be few formal
ceremonies.

The prospect of a summit meet¬
ing between President Mubarak
and Mr Yitzhak Shamir, successors
to Sadat and Mr Begin, remains

Mr Begin: Today a recluse who
refuses to comment on politics.

remote. Egypt, now a key player in
the Middle East peace process,
insists that Mr Shamir must first
change his stance on talks with the
Palestine Liberation Organization.

President Mubarak this weekend
holds talks in Cairo with King
Husain of Jordan and Mr Yassir
Arafat, the PLO chairman, on the

next stage in the peace process. On
Monday he meets King Fahd of
Saudi Arabia, launching his own
diplomatic foray in Egypt and Iraq.

What is remarkable for those
who took pan in the Camp David
process which led to the treaty,
such as Mr Eiiahu Ben-EJissar,
Israel's first Ambassador in Cairo
and now chairman of the Knesset
foreign affairs and defence com¬
mittee, is that the bilateral peace
between Jerusalem and Cairo ap¬
pears irreversible.

“Ten years ago. not one of us,
Israelis, Egyptians or Americans,
was completely convinced that the
peace would last for 10 years," he
said yesterday.

What bitterly disappoints many
Israelis - and many Egyptians - is
that Israel's fust peace treaty with
an Arab stale has not been followed
by a wider peace settlement.

For this, many observers, includ¬
ing Mr Ezer Weizman, the Israeli
Minister of Environmental Qual¬

ity, who was in Cairo this week far
a seminar on the treaty, blame Mr
Shamir and his hardline refusal to
consider international peace talks
attended by the PLO.

“One has to have a partner on
the other side to conduct negotia¬
tions with." Mr Weizman told the
leading al-Ahram newspaper. “In
my opinion Yassir Arafat is the
right partner."

Many Israelis are also dis¬
appointed that Egypt has failed to
send tourists, academics and
businessmen to Israel in large
numbers. Egypt has gradually
edged back into the Arab fold, and
has kept its relations with Israel
correct rather than warm.

.As I found on returning to
Jerusalem by taxi via Rafah on the
Mediterranean coast, Egyptian
police at border checkpoints are
suspicious of lone travellers, and
travel between Israel and Egypt is
confined to a daily bus.

The Palestinian problem is a

continuing source of tension. “The
Israelis are still the enemy,” said
the driver who took me to the
border, an Arab from Gaza (now in
Israeli occupied territory) who
sported PLO stickers on his car and
kept firing an imaginary gun out of
the window.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry
yesterday deplored “the slow pace
of normalization" and said the
Egyptian media bad foiled to
promote a positive attitude. Egypt
regained Sinai, one official said,
but the other benefits of peace were
yet to come.

Real peace, analysis say, will
come only when the Egypt-Israel
treaty is followed by others, which
in turn depends on a solution to the
Palestinian problem, now given
greater urgency by the intifada.

. When President Mubarak met
Israeli journalists in Cairo this
week, he urged Israel to talk to the
PLO to achieve a breakthrough,
asking: “Whatareyou afiaid of?”—

“Terrorism,” came . one reply.
President Mubarak responded that
Mr Arafot was a moderate who had
genuinely renounced terrorism,
and urged Israel to show flexibility
and undemanding to avoid
“another 40 years of destruction".

For Israel, however, the para¬
mount factor, despite the “old
peace” with Egypt, remains sec¬
urity. As one diplomat said yes¬
terday: “The treaty with Egypt has
helped, but there is still a long way
logo.”

• ATLANTA: Discussing the
anniversary of the treaty which he
was instrumental in bringing
about,' former President Jimmy
Carter said here that ordinary
people throughout the Middle East
wanted.peace, adding: “The ob¬
stacle has always beds leaders who -
were overly timid, or who were
demagogues, or who were un¬
certain about the results that might
occur if they made an initiative
move.”

WORLD ROUNDUP

Pakistan likely to
rejoin the fold

Miss Benazir Bhutto, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, is
expected to attend the Commonwealth heads of government
conference in Kuala Lumpur in October, according to
sources in London (Andrew McEwen writes). Islamabad has
not applied to rejoin the organization it left in 1972. but Sir
Geoffirey Howe, the Foreign Secretary, who flies to Islam¬
abad tomorrow, will discuss the matter with Miss Bhutto.

The Cbmmonwealih Secretariat in London is working on
the assumption that there will be an application in time for
the Malaysian meeting. Pakistan would become the 49th
state of the organization and the first to return to it. The
Commonwealth Secretary-General. Sir Shridath Ramphal,
is thought to have found no objections.

Pakistan would not return unless it felt confident of being
welcomed, but its restoration of democracy and the
rapprochement with India have virtually assured this.

Threat to moderates

Jerusalem — Palestinians said yesterday that masked
militants from the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine had threatened leading Arab moderates in the
West Bank town of Nablus with death if they continued a
dialogue with Israeli officials (Richard Owen writes).

The death threats reflect growing tension between the
mainstream PLO and such extreme factions as the Front
over thw possibility of an accommodation with Israel.
Separately, the Knesset agreed an £ 1 1-million budget for
Jewish settle menu in the occupied territories.

Nepal lifelines cut

Kathmandu (Reuter) — Nepal’s lifelines were almost
completely cut yesterday as India closed 11 of 13 vital routes
from the Himalayan nation as pan of a trade dispute. Trea¬
ties between the countries expired on Thursday with nego¬
tiations for renewal at an impasse. The Nepali Foreign Min¬
ister. Mr Shailer.dra Upadhyaya. leaves for Delhi tomorrow
in an effort lo revive them. Nepal relies on India for almost
half its total imports and most essential commodities.

Bribe inquiry widens

Tokyo (AFP) — The Toky o Public Prosecutor’s office is to
question government and ruling Liberal De m ocratic Party
leaders for taeir alleged involvement in the Recruit stock
trading scandal Japanese newspapers reported yesterday.
They said the prosecutors had finished questioning the
secretaries of Mr Noboni Takeshita. the Japanese Prime
Minister, and his predecessor. Mr Yasuhiro Nakasone. in
connection with Recruit shares received as alleged bribes.

Pretoria adamant

Cape Town (Renter) — Mr SadiSc Thus:, a critically-ill
detainee who has refused food for five weeks to bock his
demand to be freed or charged, must start eating before
South Africa will consider his release, the Department of Law
and Order said yesterday. Mr Thusi, aged 26, joined a
nationwide anti-detention hunger strike on February 18. He
underwent car surgery on Thursday as a result of the fast and
his sjsicr-m-faw said she thought he would die.

March for democracy

Dhaka — Tens of thousands marched here calling for
democracy and free elections yesterday, the seventh
anniversary of the coup which brought President Ershad io
power and the imposition of martial law for the second time
since independence in 1972 (Ahmed Fazl writes). “We want
genuine elections and a return to democracy, not a rule by
generals." Sheikha Hasina Wazcd. head of the opposition
A warn l League. toW 50,000 marchers.

Yeltsin likely to overcome
election slur ‘campaign’

By Andrew McEwen, Diplomatic Correspondent

Mr Boris Yeltsin, the popular
former Moscow Communist
Party chief, is likely to be
elected to the Soviet Union’s
new parliament in tomorrow’s
national elections - despite
an apparent attempt to dis¬
credit him.

After two large demonstra¬
tions in his support this week,
an unofficial poll conducted
by Soviet journalists suggested
that he would sweep the poll
in the Moscow constituency.

According to one report. 17
of those questioned backed
him for every ore who
planned to vote for his of¬
ficially-backed opponent, Mr
Sergei Brakov. manager of the
Zil car factory.

Mr Yeltsin gained a large
following as Moscow’s party
chief from I9S5 to 1987. A
crushing vote for him could be
taken as a rebuke to the Soviet
leadership, which dismissed
him after a speech in October.
1987 m which he criticized the
pats of reform as too slow.

He is still a member of the
party Centra! Committee, but
it too has sought to put
pressure on him. saying it will
jnvesugaie statements he has
made implicitly supporting
muhi-pany democracy.

Demonstrations in favour
of Mr Yeltsin have been

largely ignored by the Moscow

newspapers, winch appear to
be acting on official orders.

He believes this is designed
to stop him winning. “They’ve

tried to boycott me and deni¬
grate me using any means,
even dishonest ones.” he was
quoted as saying in an inter¬
view with the Italian news¬
paper, La Repubblica.

“I assure you it has been a
very erode campaign. But as
for the results I am beginning
to think they win end up with
exactly the opposite of what
they intended to achieve."

He added: “I didn't expect it
but maybe I was naive ...
Somebody waste to prevent
me at all costs from entering
the Supreme Soviet. The rea¬
son is dear they are afraid of
me ... of the fact that ) say
what! think and am r.ot afraid
of expressing my opinions
even if they are different from
those of the leadership."

He again denied any wish to
challenge President Gorb¬
achov’s leadership. “I am not

Israeli border guards, keeping a close eye on the Old City, look down upon thousands of pilgrims from many parts of the
world, many of them carrying crosses, as the crowds retrace the last steps of Christ along the Via Dolorosa yesterday.

Intifada
thins out
Old City
pilgrims

From Onr Own
Correspondent
Jerusalem

Thousands of Christian pil¬
grims converged on the narrow
streets of Jerusalem's Old
City yesterday to follow the
Via. Dt.fe.osa, the path of
Christ's Passion and Crod-
Jbrion. Bat foe lS-month intif¬
ada took its toll, and crowds
were thinner than nsnaL
“Famines here have sons in
prison, or sens who died,” said
a spokesman for foe Roman
Catholic Patriarch of Je¬
rusalem, Archbishop Michel
Sablmh, who is himself a Pal-
estinian Arab. “The sufferings
here nndoime foe serffcrings
of Christ on Good Friday.
There will *be littfe joy to
celebrate on Easter Sunday.”

At foe first station of the
Cross, the she of foe Roman-
era Antonia Fortress, a variety
of Christian groups gathered
round foe indentation in the
smooth stone floor said to be
foe spot where Christ stood
when he was condemned to
death — German nans, weep¬
ing and praying; Franciscan
monks in brown cassocks; and
Arab Christians from near
Bethlehem, resplendent in
Made robes and red sashes.

All foe groups in the pro¬
cession carried heavy wooden
crosses and sang hymns as
they walked past Arab street
traders in the soak, selling

Mr Yeltsin: No intention to
challenge tire President.

and I do not want to be an
alternative to Gorbachov... 1
will never oppose Gorb¬
achov,” he said.

In tomorrow’s elections
voters in 1,500 districts will
elect representatives to the
congress, which will even¬
tually have 2*250 deputies.
The two-tier parliament will
have more power than foe
Supreme Soviet, which it
replaces.

• MOSCOW: The Ukrainian
public prosecutor has said that
bodies taken from a mass
grave near Kiev were the
victims of purges by Stalin
during the 1930s. Tass re¬
vealed yesterday (AFP
reports).

Mr Victor Kulik. heading
an official investigation com¬
mittee into the mass grave,
which was found last year near
the village of Bykovnia, made
the announcement after exam¬
ining remains and a number of
persona! objects in the grave,
Tass said.

A study of archives con¬
firmed that the bodies — said
to number thousands — were
those of so-called enemies of
the people accused by the
Stalin regime of counter¬
revolutionary activities, spy¬
ing and plotting against the
Government.

It said Mr Knlifc expected
that other mass graves coukl
be found in the area and that
searches were continuing.

Leading article, page II

The Kosovo crisis

Riot police clash
with Albanians

Belgrade (Renter) — Thou¬
sands of ethnic Albanians,
hurling stones and shooting
slogans, dashed with riot
police in Kosovo yesterday in
a second day of protests
against moves to curb self-rule
in the troubled southern
Yugoslav province.

Belgrade Radio said more
than 2,000 young Albanians
battled police in the Kosovo
town of Urosevac, 150 miles
south of Belgrade, ignoring
warnings foal any new pro¬
tests would be stamped oul

Police charged the stone¬
throwing protesters with ba¬
tons and the town centre was
sealed off. The radio said
“quite a large number” of
protesters were detained.

Urosevac was hit by riots
and shooting on Thursday
when police used batons and
tear gas to crush a protest
against a decision by the
provincial Parliament to sur¬
render autonomy to Serbia,
the largest Yugoslav republic.

The Tanjug news agency
said that protesters also
massed in the town of Prizren,
near the Albanian border.
Police said earlier yesterday
they would swiftly crush any
unrest in Kosovo.

Officials said that 55 people
were arrested in Thursday’s
clashes m Urosevac and 1!
police injured. An unknown
number of demonstrators had
been hurt and some rioters

were jailed for provisional 60-
day terms on charges of
causing public disorder.

Meanwhile, force journal¬
ists in foe southern republic of
Montenegro were charged by
military prosecutors with
slandering the Army by
reporting that 100 ethnic
Albanian array officers, in¬
cluding a general, faced arrest
for [dotting unrest in Kosovo.

Thursday's unrest was the
first rioting in Kosovo since
martial law was briefly im¬
posed in 1981 to crush Alba¬
nian separatist disturbances.

The riots in Urosevac and
the provincial capital Pristina.
135 miles south of Belgrade;
broke out after foe Parliament
adopted constitutional chan¬
ges giving Serbia control of
Kosovo's police, courts, civil
defence and selection of of¬
ficials. The changes also give
Serbia a free hand to reduce
further Kosovo's autonomy in
the future.

Tire province's 1.7 million
ethnic Albanian majority see
the constitutional changes as a
threat lo their political, cul¬
tural and educational rights.
Serbia denies that this is foe
case.

The curbs on the autonomy
of Kosovo strengthen Serbia's
position within the Yugoslav
federation, putting it on a par
with the other five republics in
the country, which have never
had autonomous provinces.

Rural court hits Luftwaffe’s low flying

From Ian Murray
Bonn

The people or the rural area of
Cloppeatarg in Lower Saxony have
taken on the Luftwaffe and won a
battle which has ominous con¬
sequences for Naio.

A court in Oldenburg has ruled that
the Luftwaffe will hate to fly higher
over the towns and fields of the area to
spare the population some of the noise
if suffers from fow-fevd training.

The area is one of seven in which
NaJo has an agreement to fly down to
250ft, but the court, which has no
jurisdiction over the Allies in this, has
decided that it can at least stop West
German aircraft from flying lower
than 1,800ft above towns’and 509ft
over the open countryside.

in January an RAF Tornado
crashed dose to a village school not
far from Oldenburg when it collided

wifo a flight of Luftwaffe aircraft. The
mid-air accident did not occur inside
the permitted low-flying area.

The Defence Ministry in
which fafly agrees with Mato tint
some lov-biei training is essential, is
fighting the dec is coo. The levels the
court has imposed are still»low that
noise would be little reduced, hut
aircraft have to fly too high for pflets
to benefit from the exercise.

Herr Rupert Schulz, the Defence
Minister, is trying to tackle foe low-
flying problem on two fronts and
m a k i ng Kttie progress on either of
them. On the one hand, be is trying to
persuade the Allies to itdnce foe
number of tow-flying hoars. On the
other hand he fa trying to persuade
more areas of West Germany to acceia
some few flying in order to spread foe
load carried by the seven small areas
where ic fa permitted.

Herr Scboiz is under strong domes¬

tic pressure to halve low-flying boors
in these areas by the summer. The
coalh ion Go verament is losing rotes In
rural areas worst affected and the
minister has promised to achieve
reductions which will make a notice¬
able difference to the noise.

He is seeking to persuade the Allies
that low-fevel flying could lose his
Government the election next year and
that it is therefore in their interests to
help him if they want to avoid having
to deal with a “red-green" coalition
which wfl] be less amenable to Nato.

However, during a meeting fob
week with foe commanded of the
seres allied air forces, he failed to
convince (hem of the need for anything
like a 59 per cent redaction.

British and I S commanders were
critical of foe fed that West German
pilots do only 160 low-levd training
hours a year instead of the 240 which
Nato considers fe foe essential mini-

mara. For Naio's defence to be
credible, they argued, it was important
to increase foe Luftwaffe total and not
cut hoars from the others.

To *W to Herr Schob's discomfort,
foe Allied commanders argned that for
tow^evel traraag to be really effective
it should be allowed down to 100ft in
s ome ar eas. They certainly one no
wwragement at all to hb idea of
rabui§ the low-level limit in the seven
permitted areas from 250ft to 590ft.

*** equally

“soccessftd m talks with tenters &
foe federal states where no lew-level
firing is allowed. He has tried to
«pbm to them that if every area fa
®ed then nobody will haretopufnp
£fo very much. However, pfiftfeS
feaders of states which do not suffer at
all are not prepared to take foe
electoral risk of accepting even foe

makes he task more difficult

Beirut (AFP) — Amid an
unofficial halt to dashes be¬
tween the Army and Syrian-
led forces. General Michel
Aoun, head of the Christian
alternative government, yes¬
terday urged Lebanese to eject
the 35.000Syrian troops in the
country, even if it meant the
destruction of Beirut.

carpets, sweet pastries and
souv enirs. “It is very bad for
business,” one shopkeeper
said, evidently regarding
Easter as an opportunity for
commerce. “No tourists.”

Yesterday Israeli troops
kept a discreet bat watchful
eye on the proceedings.

At the Church of (he Holy
Sepulchre, foe traditional rite
o f -C hrist's Crucifixion and
burial, pilgrims crowded into
foe crypt to see foe tomb from
which Christ rose again.

“We are awestruck,” said
Mr James Stanford, from
Leicester, who bad come with
his wife, Paula, on “foe pil¬
grimage of a lifetime” to give
thanks in Jerusalem for 25
years of marriage.

Had they been worried by
rartence or the presence of sol¬
diers? TMot at all,” Mrs Stan-
“^h* “Wiers are a
p.*—® British policemen. So
helps®! when you get lost."

• ROME* The Pope heard
yesterday of seven
Catholics chosen at random
from thousands in St Peter's

. V —

vvean^g a dark maati
w b*te cassock, the
spent 70 minutes bearir

confessions of a West G«

religion teacher, two R
bos drivers, two Italian
and a mother an
from Verona.

• SAN PEDRO CUTU]
ven men had themselves i
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^ By Andrew McEwen

Thatcher-Gorbachov role in Pretoria solution

^MreJTiMdier prepares for her to Africa
ornimM ofa possible settlement of
South AfiicM conflict are emezging, with both
. soviet and British governments playing
important linked rotes.

The decision by President Botha of South
”™a to^step down late - this year has raised
“PP®o* “Stef reforms. President Gorbachov and
the Prime Minister are seen by diplomats as key
players, because of flair influence respectively
with the African National Congress and South
Africa's five million whites.

They will meet in London on April 5-7, shortly
after her tour, and are likely to devote more time
to South Africa than previously expected. British
and Soviet sources red that, after years of sharp
differences, the two countries are now pulling in
the same direction. No formal Anglo-Soviet joint
approach is likely, but understandings between
the two leaders could have the same effect.

Mr Gorbachov is thought to be ready to coax,
but not force, the ANC to suspend its armed

struggle. His argument will be that violence plays
into the hands ofthe far right and could prevent a

government committed to reform winning the
general election expected in October.

The ANC has always dismissed the relev ance
of elections from which blades are excluded. But
Moscow succeeded in persuadh$ Angola and
Cuba to accept the Angola-Namibia agreement,
and has now turned its attention to South Africa.

Mrs Thatcher’s role, as the foreign leader
enjoying most respect among white South

Africans, will be to persuade the new government

U> cany out real rather than cosmetic changes. In
a booklet published by the Foreign Office
yesterday, Britain's Voice in South Africa, she is
quoted as saying: “I do not see how ... it is
possible to achieve political stability except on a
basis where all adults have the vote. The issue is
to reconcile the exercise of those normal
democratic rights ... with the reasonable
protection of minority interests.”

If the National Party beats off the conservative
challenge in the general election, Mr F. W. de
Klerk is likely to take power with a mandate for

constitutional changes. President Botha may stay
in office until soon afterwards, but will be unable
to ignore the wish of Mr de Klerk and .other
National Party leaders fora foster pace ofreform.
He seems likely to authorize the release ofNelson
Mandela, life president of the ANC, before
stepping down. Ibis prospect should put Mis
Thatcher in a stronger position next week. She is
to see President Babangida of Nigeria on

Lusaka (Beater) - Two African National Cob-
fjess members were seriously injured when, they
drove ever a landmine in Zambia, near Namibia’s
South African-controlled Camiri strip.

Tuesday, President Mugabe of Zimbabwe and
President Chissand of Mozambique on Wednes¬
day, and President Banda of Malawi on Friday.

Mbs Thatcher has always said die regards
further sanctio ns as counter-productive. In the
fast, the frontline stales have been sceptical, but
she will argue that her approach is beginning to
work. While the influence of the United States
and Chnada with Pretoria has declined, here has

increased. Britain, has performed a key role m
bringing together Soviet and' South African
academic at two meetings this month. These
have shown that advisers outside foeSoviet
Foreign Ministry, bat .with known access to.
President Gorbachov, are advising him to qualify
Moscow’s support for the ANC. ■

The memings may have paved the way for talks
between Mr ILF. ”Pik" Botha, the South Afirican
Foreign Minister, and Mr AnaloE A damishin , a
Soviet Deputy Foreign. Minister. The two men
were in Maputo, the Mozambican cap i t al , at the
tiW nn T hmdafc and Mr Botha refused ft)
disclose whether or not they met .

Though still cautious, the National Party has
not dismissed the signs of a dianp in Soviet
attitudes. Its chief spokesman, Mr Con Botha,
MP, said: “Should Russia succeed in persuading
the ANC to become a non-violcgt org aniz ati on ,
Mandela’s problem would be -solved, and ours
too.” This is not necessarily over-optimistic,
some British sources say. Sir John KfiGck, &
former British Ambassador to Moscow, who
chaired a meeting this month between Soviet and

Sourii- African academics outside London, be-
tieves-ftipsdq&f is inainagmaticmood.

ife pointed wr that the Soviet delegation,
. beaded by Mir Anatoly. Gromyko, son of the
former President, name dose to having official
status. All its members woe drawn from the
Africa Institute, as influential body. Sir John
mHwh “They made it dear that- thev did not
think armed Struggle (by the ANC) was the right
course:” The delegation implied, (but did not
^promise) that Moscow would try to persuade the
ANC to move away from violence, but qualified
this by saying they could understand if .the ANC
fdt it bad.no alternative.

- Tire Sovkt academics critidzed Pretoria and
the ANC for setting preconditions for talks.-They
said they did not resard the ANC as the sole
■spokesman for Mack South Africa, and talked of a

round-table approach involving ill parties. They

implied, but did not confirm, this would include
Chief Mangosuthu Bothctad, the moderate head
of the fair—ha Zulu mavenrent,-who enjoys Mrs
Thatcher's support but is in dispute with the
ANC Leading article, page 11

Ozal faces crucial
test in Turkish
mayoral elections

Despite attempts by Mr
Tnrgnt Ozal, the Turkish
Prime Minister, to play down
the importance of tomorrow’s
national mayoral elections.

-they are seen here as likely to and slightly less In last year’s
decide his political future. referendum.

Mr Ozal has already sebed- A bigger aim for the oppo-
uled a comprehensive shake- sition is to force an early

From Bast GurdHek, Ankara

only about a third of the party, resenting the domi¬
nation backs him. nance of liberals sheltered by

The Motherland Party re- Mr Ozal and his influential
ceived 36 per cent of the votes wife, Semra, do not even
in the 1987 general election pretend to be campaigning
and slightly less in last year’s hard, and openly hope a
referendum. setback will jolt the leadership

A bigger aim for the oppo- “back to its senses”..

tiled a comprehensive shake- sition is to force an early
up of his six-year-old Govern- general election which, it says,
ment immediately after the will be inevitable if the Gov-

polL In an interview with a emment’s summit falls below Ozal’s absolute authority has
leading national daily this 30 per cent come from Mr Bedrettin

week, he also felt the need to A combination of tiroum- Dalan, the popular mayor of
repeat the warning which stances has put MrOzal on the Istanbul, who has been
served him so well in a defensive, and he is relying on advertising his quarrel with
referendum last yean That he frequent television appear- the Prime Minister and only
“would seriously consider and all usio n s to the just stopped short of renounc-

siepping down” if the oppo- terrorism once so prevalent to ing his ties with the party in an
sition made substantial gains, bolster bis standing. attempt to mwimm his vote.

More than 28 million Turks Turkey’s worried creditors Some opposition politicians
are set to elect mayors and have enforced restraint on perceive in this friction a
members of councils in hun- campaign spending. Mr Ozal cunning plot to lure as many
dreds of towns tomorrow. But is grappling with a 75 per cent opposition supporters as pos-
the Social Democrats and inflation rate, mounting debts, sible to an “independent” Mr

But the liberal fiction is no
more supportive. One of the
most serious challenges to Mr
Ozal’s absolute authority has
come from Mr Bedrettin
Dalan, the popular mayor of
Istanbul, who has been
advertising his quarrel with
the Prime Minister and only

sition made substantial gains.

More than 28 million Turks
are set to elect mayors and
members of councils in hun¬
dreds of towns tomorrow. But
the Social Democrats and

other opposition parties have and mushrooming c or r up tion

turned the ballot into another
test of popularity for Mr Ozal
and his Motherland Party,
whose share of the vote is
expected generally to decline.

The stakes are high for the
Prime Minister. Observers
believe that he is nursing
ambitions of becoming the
next head of slate: President
Evren, who led the army coup
in 1980 and was elected to
office in 1982, completes his
term in November. His
replacement is to be named by
the 450-member Parliament,
in which Mr Ozal's party
enjoys a 292-strong majority.

But the Social Democrats,
led by Mr Erdal Inonu, and
the small Tine Path Party of
Mr Suleyman Demirel, a sea¬
soned conservative, are dis¬
puting Mr Ozal's aquations
to the presidency, given that

scandals. There has been ad¬
verse reaction, even from
within the party, to the
substantial power vested in
members of Mr Ozal's family.

attempt to his vote.

Some opposition politicians
perceive in this friction a
cunning plot to lure as many
opposition supporters as pos¬
sible to an “independent” Mr
Dalan, so that he would
receive the support of a large
majority of Istanbul’s four
million voters.

Many observers believe
that, if Mr Dalan's electoral

The fir right and Islamic strategy works and he vastly
fundamentalists within his increases his support, he will

become untouchable — even
by MrOzal.

In the event of such an
outcome, Mr Dalan would
have to be appeased by an
enhanced party role to fore¬
stall his rumoured plans to
found a breakaway grouping,
taking away liberal big guns
from Mr Ozal and recruiting
from among the opposition.

But if Mr Dalan fails, ana¬
lysts him at plans by MrOzal
to withdraw state subsidies,
leaving the mayor with huge
foreign debts accumulated by
Mr Ozal: His hopes of die his revitalization programme,
presidency are in jeopardy, or even divide Istanbul in two.

A new woman recruit to the Afghan NajiboHah’s troops to reopen the road
Army receiving training from an from Kabul to the besieged city of
instructor in Kabul on the Chinese- Jalalabad (R eute r reports from Pesha-
made AK47 assault rifle. war). The rebels said that a govern-

Meanwhile, Mujahidin sources said ment force had come down the road
in Pakistan yesterday that their forces from the town of Sorobi on Thursday,

The guerrillas shot down one heli¬
copter and killed three soldiers, the
sources said, citing radio reports from
the area. They also blew up a bridge,
the second in recent days.

Independent confirmation of the
unavailable. A Soviet

newspaper said on Thursday a supply
column filled to reach Jalalabad from
Kabul, because rebels bad Mown up
bridges. But the Mujahidin said that
about 25 helicopters had flown from
Kabul to Jalalabad yesterday, and
may have brought supplies.

Soviet relations in the Middle East

Belgian is

Saudis ready to end 51-year rift

n.Br Mr O

From Christopher Walker, Riyadh

February’s final withdrawal of last week’s meeting here of the the Afghan Mujahidin and Mr
Soviet troops from Afghani- 46-mem bo* Islamic Confer- Vorontsov was the highest
stan will prove the catalyst ence Organization, an invito- ranking Kremlin official to be

Seoul opposition condemns
the issue of rifles to police

From John Grttelsohn, Seoul

The decision to issue rifles to aghast to see that the Govern- minds as an example of
police to use against dem- ment ... has decided to government over-reaction to
onstrators has awakened dark provide M16 rifles to even popular protest President
memories of South Korea's police sub-stations and to Roh has fought hard to put the
recent authoritarian past and allow policemen to open fire Kwangju issue to rest, but
heightened fears of political at protesters,” said Mr Kim critics say arming the police
polarization. Dae Jung, leader of the largest identifies him too closely with

The National Police chief opposition group in the Nat- his disgraced predecessor and
ordered the distribution of ional Assembly. mentor, Mr Chun Doo Hwan.

13.000 M16 assault rifles to While conceding the need to Others see the anti-left cam-
3,190 police sub-stations on maintain law and order, the paign as a means of heading
Thursday, after a call by Government's critics say the off right-wing extremists.
President Roh to “take up left-wing threat has 'been The rifle issue comes amid
arms and invoke the right of “manufactured" to enhance growing division within the
self-defence” against firebomb the Government's power. n,jing party, the Democratic
throwers. The order said the a Western diplomat said: Justice Party, and fears that

onstrators has awakened dark
memories of South Korea's

provide M16 rifles to even
police sub-stations and to

recent authoritarian past and allow policemen to open fire
heightened fears of political at protesters,” said Mr Kim

polarization.

Dae Jung, leader of the largest

The National Police chief opposition group in the Nat-
ordered the distribution of ,ona * Assembly.

13.000 M16 assault rifles to
3,190 police sub-stations on

While conceding the need to
maintain law and order, the

Thursday, after a call by Government's critics say the
President Roh to “take up left-wing threat has been
arms and invoke the right of “manufactured” to enhance
self-defence” against firebomb the Government's power,
throwers. The order said the a Western diplomat said:
rifles, supplementing the tra- “The whole left-wing fear is
ditional tear gas, were to be being talked up and exag-

Soriet troops from Afghani- 46-member
stan will prove the catalyst ence Organ
necessary to bring about foe don to a to.
formal resorption of dip- address the
lomatic ties between foe League Pol
conservative kingdom of Saudi foe warm
Arabia and die Soviet Union- accorded to
after a gap of 51 years, team playii
according to tire consensus of Youth Cup.
opinion among leading Arab According
and Western analysts in servers who
Riyadh. monitoring

“There have been so many gestures w
straws in foe wind that every- unthinkable
one here believes that it is now ago. One m
only a matter of tine before be an attem]
a m bassadors are exchanged,” signal disco
one senior s Western Europe American
diplomat said. arms sales q

“What remains is for the -
royal family to obtain foe vital £ Sovif
consent of Saudi Islamic lead- hioh lv
ers that such a move can take
place, and that the com- DCtOre t

unmists are no longer equated -

with Satan.” Middle East

Although no date for such the Saadi le
an exchange has yet been set Bosh Admit

tion to a top Soviet official to
address the Sandi-based Arab
Leagne Police Academy and
foe warm Saudi reception

ranking Kremlin official to be
received by the Saudi leader¬
ship since Stalin unilaterally
broke off relations in 1938.

The rapprochement with

accorded to the Soviet soccer Moscow coincided with a more
team playing in the World forward Saudi profile in for-

According to Western ob-

eign polity as a whole, notably
with the other Communist

savers who have been dosety giant, China, with whom an
monitoring the thaw such agreement to open commercial
gestures would have been offices staffed by diplomats in
unthinkable even two years the two respective capitals was
ago. One motive is believed to
be as attempt by foe Saudis to

tween the two nations were
highly developed, and tire
Sandi desert kingdom relied
heavily on Moscow to provide
it with basic goods and
commodities, rnrfnding petro¬
leum products.

After the pre-war break
with Moscow, Saadi Arabia
was sen as a staunch ally of
the West, notably in the 1960s
and 1976s when the Sandi
monarchy tended to equate
cammankm with Zionism.

Hie Soviet Army’s invasion

signal discontent with recent likely prelude to eventual dip-
American handling of foe tomatic recognition.

signed last November. That of Afghanistan in December
was also widely seen as a 1979 placed a new obstacle to

aimed at protesters' ankles.

The move marked a step¬
ping up of the Government’s
campaign against what it secs
as encroaching left-wing activ¬
ity among students, workers,
farmers and other disaffected
groups, who often chant North
Korean propaganda.

The new policy drew im¬
mediate condemnation from
opposition sources. “I was

gerated because of a right-
wing backlash. We've been
afraid of it since the Olympics.

ruling party, the Democratic
Justice Party, and fears that
South Korea's powerful mili¬
tary might step in to assume a
political role. But most mem¬
bers defended the order.

“Now wc think radical ex-

by either side, officials, noting ging its feet.

arms sales question and of the

# Soviet links were
highly developed
before the break 9

Middle East m general, where
the Sandi leadership feels the
Bush Administration is drag-

1: shows there's no real change tremisis on the left, who are

in the Government I'm dis¬
appointed and disturbed. It's
setting the scene for more
repression.''

The 1980 killing of some
200 anti-martial law pro¬
testers in the city of Kwangju
remains fresh in South Korean

trying to bring down

foe recent opening of dip¬
lomatic links between Moscow
and Oman, the United Arab
Emirates and Qatar, are look¬
ing to a 12-18 month period.

“The main stumbling block
would be if the Kremlin was
seen overstepping Its treaty
rights In its arming of the

The pointers followed foe

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain
are the only two members of
the six nation affiance, the
Gulf Co-operation Cornell —
which also includes Kuwait,
Qatar, Oman and the UAE —
not to have diplomatic finks
with either of foe world's two
big communist powers.

The establishment of of¬
ficial commercial ties with
China reflected the increased

first concrete hint that a sea- warmth between foe two coon-
change in Sandi Arabia's long- tries since they began general

standing public hostility to
Moscow (private ties on vital
oil-related issues were always
kept up) was coming, namely

trade talks at the end of 1987,
an initiative which culminated
in tiie significant purchase by
Saudi Arabia in April 1988 of

last December’s visit of Mr Chinese intermediate-range

regime, are causing a lot of despised Najibuilah regime in
trouble”, said Mr Park Chong Kabul,” oae official said.

Soo, a ruling parry deputy. Among foe most recent
adding that supplying police pointers to an impending
with rifles was meant as a change in approach was the
threat more than a promise surprise presence of Prarda’s
that they would be fired. Middle East correspondent at

Yuli Vorontsov, the Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister and
resident Ambassador in Ka¬
bul, for talks in the momitein
resort of Taif on the Afghan
conflict.

Saudi Arabia has been one

missiles. “The best bet is that
we shall see a Chinese ambas¬
sador setting up here shortly
before a Soviet one,” a Ri¬
yadh-based diplomat said.

Before the break by Safa,
for which there was no public

of foe principle s up p orte rs of explanation, trade links

1979 placed a new obstacle to
die resumption of ties which
President Gorbachov has been
working hard behind foe

# Communism was
equated with Zionism
by Saudi kings 9

scales to engineer. Although
friction be t w e e n the state-
supported atheism of the
Marxist Kremlin and the
conservative Islamic ten¬
dencies of Sandi Arabia stfll
exists, the withdrawal from
Kabul and a recent high
profile tour of the Middle East
by Mr Eduard Shevardnadze,
foe Soviet Foreign Minister,
have removed most suspicions
from this end.

“It is not that foe Saudis are
planning to turn their backs on
the US,” a diplomatic source
said. “But there is a new
approach and warmth to foe
Soviet Union that has not been
seen here in decades.”

Cash needed to save the crumbling monuments of Italy

From Roger Boyes
Verona

The traditional Easter processions
will be muted this year in the
medieval town of Pavia. The col¬
lapse of its 900-year-old bell lower,
which claimed four lives, has shat¬
tered the orderly pace of the old city
^public. A warning that more
wildings might be falling apart
breed the police to rope off the
.'cntre again.

This is more than an architectural
md personal tragedy. All over Italy
Tacks are appearing in domes and
nasonry. towers and palaces creak
is the ancient foundations shift,
fa via. many an historians fear, was
tot a freak event.

An already out-of-date list of
criously threatened monuments
antes 115 Italian sites — including
lie Roman Colosseum, the firsi-
entuiy Arena in Verona, the
Inacoteca di Brcra in Milan. These
tndmarks of European civilization
re not about to tumble down in a
'tatter of days; but they are suffering

from grave structural and geological
problems which could, if un¬
checked, lead to catastrophe.

Bell towers are particularly sen¬
sitive. as the case of Pavia dem¬
onstrated earlier this month. In
1902 the bell tower of St Mark’s in
Venice fell down because low water
levels sapped the foundations.

For the past few years the
Campidoglio bell lower in Rome
has begun to list and. according to
the Mayor, Signor Pietro Giubilo, a
working group will begin to inspect
the structure within days.

“Many towers are still standing
only because God wills iL" Profes¬
sor Paolo Marconi, the an historian,
declares. “Our ancestors were
competing sharply when they built

their towers: each architect wanted
to build higher than that of other
towns and cities. The structures
suffered-often the base pillars had
to carry extraordinarily heavy
weights.”

The reasons for the Pavia catas¬
trophe are not fully dear yet. but it is
plain that it was suffering from the

disease of all Italy's twelfth and
thirteenth century towers — a
combination of soil erosion, the
drying up of the foundations, the
powdering of masonry and the
vibrations of the modern world.

Only two structures are being
monitored with state-of-the-art
technology — the leaning tower of
Pisa and the cupola of Florence
Cathedral Professor Marconi says

Paria (Renter) - Signora Vmceaza
Bono Panina, Italy's Minister of
Colrurfe, said here that she was
imposing a £3.7 billion pfan to
restore the nation's monuments.

that he managed to slow the slipp&e
of the Pisa lower by lobbying against
geologists who wanted to bore for
water nearby.

Professor Gerogeri of the Univer¬
sity of Pisa said that the tower’s tilt
increases on average 1.29 mm per
year. “It's nor really a structural
problem. It is simply that the terrain
underneath the lower is not very
solid. The weight of the tower

compresses the underlying soil and
every year the soil becomes more
and more compact Moreover,
underneath the monument there are
streams of water that change their
course every year. When they built
the tower (it was started in 1173),
they didn't know this."

The working hypothesis is that
the tower of Pisa will fall down in
about a century, but the Pavia
incident could mean a recalculation
of the odds.

The architecture division of the
Italian Central Restoration institute
has drawn up a provisional map of
monuments most at risk, based on
geological and environmental fac¬
tors. Earthquake tremors are the
main hazard, and there is a lively
discussion about whether monu¬
ments in threatened areas — in
Catania in Sicily, for example —
should be given iron stabilizers or
have cement injected into the
foundations.

Landslips, flooding, dimate, air
pollution, all have to be brought
into the calculations- Another vari¬

able is that of mass tourism — what
long-term effects do tramping feet
have on ancient stairways?

The principal threat to Italy's
monuments, though, is the Awd
hand of government budgeting.
Italy, the biggest cultural treasure
trove in Europe, allocates only 0.24
per cent of its budget to culture,
France about 1 per cent.

The National Geological Service,
which should be bringing its tech¬
nology to the aid of culture, was
whittled away for decades. The
monuments should be closely in¬
spected by the local cultural watch¬
dogs, the Superintendents.

But, according to Professor
Federico Zeri, “superintendents
have so many other thing * to do:
They teach at university, send art
works abroad. And though they
rightly complain about lack of
money, they use available funds for
pointless purchases and throw
money away on senseless ex¬
hibitions.” The result, says Profes¬
sor Zeri, is foot monuments are
often saved only by accident.

The Tower of Pisa: Expected
lifespan is under review.

Brussels (AP) — A lawyer has
been charged here over the
kidnapping in January of Mr
Paul Vanden Boeynants, the
former Prime Minister, who
was freed only after his family
paid an undisclosed ransom.

Officials said Mr Michel
Vander Elst, aged 41, changed
with kidnapping, extortion,
forgery and conspiracy, was
the lawyer of Patrick Hae-
mers, an escaped convict and
a suspect in the case.

Four killed

Colombo (AFP) — The mili¬
tary has blamed the deaths of
four suspected Sinhalese mili¬
tants on vigilantes only a day
after the Government bowed
to opposition demands to look
into alleged police involve¬
ment in such incidents.

Tourist death

Paris (AFP) — A Portuguese
tourist was killed when he was
almost decapitated in a col¬
lision between a packed tour¬
ist boat and a barge on the
Seine near Notre Dame. Ten
people were slightly injured.

Leader held

Bangkok (Reuter) — Burma’s
military rulers have arrested
Mr Min Ko Naing, one of the
country’s most prominent stu
dent leaders, and warned that

anti-army protests will not be
tolerated.

Boats stopped

Hong Kong (AFP) — Marine
police have intercepted two
vessels carrying 207 Viet¬
namese boat people, the larg¬
est number stopped in one day
this year.

Basques freed

Poitiers (AFP) — Two sus¬
pected Basque militants were
released after an appeals court
in this French town refused
the Madrid Government’s re¬
quest for their extradition.

Poverty trap

Bangkok (AFP) — More than
two billion people living in
Asia and the Pacific earn only
60p or less a day, the head of a
UN agency said.

Not so funny

Delhi (AFP) — Police have
arrested Johnnv Lever, aged
32, a popular film comedian,
for mocking the national an¬
them at a party in Dubai, press
reports said.

Attack victim

Bangkok (AFP) — A Japanese
man who was attacked and
robbed by a taxi driver on his
honeymoon here died in hos¬
pital, officials said.

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C ongratulations to James Jones, the
newly appointed programme editor
of Nantwich Town of the Bass North
West Counties League. He is 12. The
football dub’s previous programme editor
left, and shortly afterwards James turned up
selling programmes off his own baL The
club, awed by such dedication and en¬
trepreneurial skills, took him on officially.
At the last home game he raised £15 by
selling programmes at 20p each. The
average home gate is between 100 ami 200.

L ast week I told yon of the fastest goal
of all time. Now I have a letter from
Dr Malcolm Irvine telling me about
what he believes to be the Easiest own goal of
all time. The occasion was a match b e twe en
Torquay United and Cambridge United in
January 1977. Torquay kicked o^ the ball
was passed back to defender Pat Kruse, who
in turn passed back to the keeper. The
keeper, coining ont to collect the ball,
slipped, and it trickled past him into the net
“Torquay 0, Cambridge 1 after about six
seconds without a Cambridge player even
getting near the ball,” Dr [none wrote. The
final score was 2-2, with Torquay scoring all
four goals, Phil Sandercock adding a second
own goal “I remain, sir, a life-long Torquay
supporter,” Dr Irvine loyalty concludes.

M eanwhile, my old friend and
cricketing opponent Nicky Bird,
former publisher at the Victoria
and Afoot Museum, claims the fastest ever
own goal scored by a referee. Bird was acting
as both player and referee in a match
between the V&A and Express Dairies a few
weeks back, and, perplexed by his dual
responsibilities (any responsibility is likely
to perplex him) calmly headed into his own
net after 90 seconds. The Dairies won 3-1.

BARRY FANTONI

‘Ferries or the water off
Pfeol Chanson's back?*

H ere is a new cricket record that is
obscure even by the elevated stan¬
dards this column has always strived
for. Tom Moody, a promising bat from
Western Australia, has been selected for the
party to tour England this summer. If be
plays in a Test, he will be the tallest
specialist batsman ever to have played in an
Ashes match. Moody is 6ft 8in_ And should
Curdy Ambrose, a mere 6ft 7 V:in, be chosen
for the Northamptonshire side to meet the
tourists, he will have the unusual experience
of another player looking down on him.

The tallest Ashes player so far is Bruce
Reid, also 6ft 8in. who would have been
Australia’s main strike bowler this summer
but for a back injury, the fast bowler’s
nemesis. The tallest Englishman in an Ashes
match is Tony Grctg at 6ft 7 Vsin: and should
Grcig not be English enough for you. the
honour must go to Alan Oakman, at 6ft 7m.
(1 wonder how Moody deals with die fast
straight yorker?)

A n English football team leads the
nation back into Europe: yes, let us
give a cheer for Sutton United. The
GM Vauxhall Conference side has been
invited to take part in a six-team tour¬
nament in Paris in May. The teams include
two French third division sides, one from
Morocco and two from Algiers (it was in
Algiers that Albert Camus, footballer as well
as philosopher and novelist, used to play).
Hie invitation comes after Sutton's FA Cup
nm this season, in which they beat Coventry
City.

A s the anguished football managers of
England look anxiously for the results
of their frenzied trading this week
ahead of the transfer deadline, they can look
to the deal between Milan and Fiorentina os
a model of smart dealing. In 1925. as a
historical note, Charlie Buchan was trans¬
ferred from Sunderland to Arsenal for£i00
a goaL Milan have loaned Stefano
Borgonovo to Fiorentina this season for 300
million lira, or £150.000- But for every goal
be scores. Fiorentina receives 15 million lira
(£7,500) from Milan. Borogonovo is playing
so well that Milan are determined to lave
him bock. If he finishes the season with 20
goals, be will not have cost Fiorentina a lira.

Simon Barnes

T he point of life is not the straggle, but
the defeat, as this column has long
believed. After bringing you the
Ja m aica n bobsleigh team and Westfield FC
of the Danarr Combined. Counties League,
let the New Zealand ice hockey team Join
our select band of noble failures. They have
just completed an ice hockey tournament in
Belgium with the following record: 0-26
against Great Britain; 0-23 against Spain;
1-52 against. Romania and an encouraging
2-21 against Belgium. In the match against
Romania there was a goal every 69 seconds.

“We came to learn, and we learnt a lot,”
said their manager. Graeme Glass. “We are
not discouraged. We didn't mind losing so
much as failing to score in two matches. It is
a different style of play, but then again,
perhaps wc don’t have any style at aH"

The New Zealand Ice Hockey Federation
has been in existence three years. This
Romanian match was not their worst defeat
— Australia once beat them 58-0. The
players each paid around £1,000 to get to the
tournament, some of them taking out bank
loans or second mortgages. The hero of the
trip was, of course, the goalie, Neil Glass. He
summed up with one of the most sanguine
remarks of the year so fan “If s all the same
to me whether its 100-0 or 50-0.”

Washington

The Labour Party’s review of
foreign and defence policy is
approaching completion after
the talks here between myself
and other members of a party
delation and senior American
officials.

I doubt if any political party in
Britain has examined any sub¬
ject so exhaustively and pains-
takingly as has our group
assigned to review defence pol¬
icy. We have taken evidence
from numerous organizations,
most recently from repre¬
sentatives of the Campaign for
Nuclear Disarmament. We have
also conducted a long series of
oversea visits.

In Bonn and Paris, together
with Martin O’Neill, our
Shadow Defence Secretary, 1
lave met the foreign and defence
ministers ofboth West Germany
and France. In Belgium we had
long meetings with the Sec¬
retary-General and Supreme
Commander of Nalo, as well as
the Belgian defence minister.
Last month four of o$ were in
Moscow.

Now, following my meeting
last summer with President Rea¬
gan's Defence Secretary, Rank
Carfucd, coupled with an
inspection of the Trident base at
King’s Bay, Georgia, we have
rounded off our work in
Washington.

Our talks here have certainly

Gerald Kaufman reports on his talks with Bush officials

Boost for Labour review

provided substantial material for
consideration — material sup¬
plied from such authoritative
sources as General Brent Scow-
croft, President Bush’s National
Security Adviser, and senior
officials and experts in the State
Department and the Podagra.
We also met congressmen.

Most encouraging was the
determination in foe new Bush
administration to continue the
work on arms control and
disarmament begun by Reagan.
We were told by Robert Kimxoit,
Undersecretary of State for
Political Affairs “Anns control
is certainty a necessary part of
defence policy. 1989 and 1990
are going to be two of the most
active years in the history of
arms control negotiation.”

Any fears that a new president
would falter in the two major
negotiations initiated in the
Reagan era were dispelled in the
White House itself by General
Scowcroft’s firm assurance on
Stan (die talks aimed at reducing
long-range nuclear arsenals by 50
per cent): “This is now our
negotiation.”

Roger Harrison, deputy chief
negotiator, told us az the State
Department that Start is 80 per
cent complete. Although the
remaining 20 per cent of what
will be a “massive document”
includes most of tbe really
difficult issues, Mr Harrison said
he believed tbe political will was
present on both sides to get these
settled.

“If the Soviets want to make
progress”, he tokl us, “there is a
very open door lore.” Ambas¬
sador Robert Blackwell, special
asristant to President Bush in the
National Security Council,
added: “The President has put a
very high priority on Start.”

Nor was a successful conclu¬
sion to Start regarded as the end
of tbe nuclear disarmament pro¬
cess. Talking to ns in the Old
Executive Office Building,
Blackwell spoke enthusiastically
about the need to “get rid of a lot
of these nuclear weapons..-
thousands and thousands.” Such
further reductions, both Black-
well and General Scowcroft
emphasized, must be achieved
“in a stabilizing way”.

Everyone we met in Wash¬
ington stressed the key im¬
portance of the East-West CFE
talks yw> w taking place in 1 Vienna

aimed at reducing conventional
forces in Europe In his office in
the State Department; Charlie
Thomas, Senior Deputy Assis¬
tant, Europe, declared that “the
nuclear detenent is a function of
tbe conventional iwtiwbmr*- ..
The problem starts not with
nuclear weapons but with con¬
ventional weapons.” ‘

General Scowcroft said that
one reason for the need, as he
saw it, fra nuclear weapons in
Europe is the sharp asymmetry
in conventional weapons. It is
that asymmetry, which the
Americans seek to correct, which
governs the Bush administra¬
tion's approach to foe thorny
issue of moderaizutg short-range
nuclear weapons.

While Mrs Thatcher seems
obsessed with getting a firm
decision to modernize at the
Nato summit in Brussels in May,
tbe Americans are far more
rational.

They certainly would like a

derision m favour of moderniza¬
tion. General Scowcroft put it
like this: “We want a decision
this year. We need a derision as
eariy as ft is pa5sfote to malte”
At die Pentagon, Dqmty Ass¬
istant Secretary John Wood-
worth said there was a need now
to develop a successor to the
Lance missile, which would
cease to be a viable nuclear
weapons system in the middle of
the next decade. However, what
was required at Brussels was
reaffirmation of the need for a
system-rather than, s specific

deployment decision. Mr
Thomas was co n cer n ed that foe
modernization issue had “a great
potent ia l for. contaminating the
summit”, which had other im¬
portant issues to consider. ~

White re jec ting the Third Zero
— getting rid of all shorMangc
unclear weapons from the Conti¬
nent— President Bush's officials
were not adamantly agamst ever
negotiating on redactions in
such weapons.

General Scowcroft was op¬
posed to moving on to dis¬
cussions cm short-range systems

until he was “dear about what is
going to happen on CFE”. But he
added: “If yon can rectify
. asymmetry in conventional
weapons, you can consider other
systems.” ;

As for Britain’s role, Congress¬
man Les. Aspin, Democratic
chairman .of foe House of Repre¬
sentatives Armed Services Com¬
mittee, said of post-Start no¬
tations, “I don’t think you could
do another one without bringing
in. the British and the French.”
And Blackwell declared that the
roles of other countries “are not
.derisions to be made on’the
Potomac”

We in our review group agree
with that. While we wens in foe
Soviet Union Mrs Thatcher
derided the idea of a. British
defence policy labelled “Made in
Moscow”; For once she was,
right. Labour’s defence policy'
win be labelled neither “Made in
■Moscow” nor “Made in Wash¬
ington”. It wOJ be made in
Britain, for Britain.

General Scowcroft wished us
wdl in our review, saying that we
were engaged in “important
work”. Those of us chaigai with
this review are deeply conscious
offoereqjonribihty foal rests on
us. I hope we can measure up to
our task.

cum—til l wnsu

The author, AfPfor Manchester,
Gorton, is Labour spokesman on
foreign affairs.

Dudley Fishbum

Victorian voice

T he name of John
Bright, who died 100
years ago, is coupled in
every schoolboy’s
mind with that of
Richard Cobden. The pair were
leaders of tbe two great battles of
Victorian reform: the repeal of
the Corn Laws and the struggle
for universal suffrage.

Cobden, the elder man, was
the thinker. Bright was the
orator, the publicist and tbe
pulverizer of opposition. While
Cobden partly retired after the
tariffs against the import of grain
were removed. Bright continued
to fight for another 43 years. His
campaigns encompassed the full
range of Victorian re fo r m as
Britain changed from rule by the
landed aristocracy to the “fierce
democracy” of the urban, indus¬
trial masses.

Bright’s “Victorian values”
included free trade; the dis¬
establishment of the Chinch of
England and, particularly, the
Church of Ireland; an end to the
East India Company and more
responsible government for In¬
dia; abolition of foe House of
Lords; support for the northern
states in foe American civil war;
the end to capital punishment (a
much overlooked, but widely
shared, Victorian value); the
secret ballot; abolition of pass¬
ports; a foreign policy of "pugna¬
cious pacifism” and the need for
a Channel tunneL
By the time of his death on
March 27, 1889, Bright had
become (with Wilberforce) the
greatest parliamentarian of the
century not to hold important
office.

The secret of John Bright’s
grip on Victorian society rested
on a single strength foal is almost
impossible to recapture today:
bis oratory. Bright wrote little;
He was a man of speech, and
nothing fades so fast as foe
spoken word. While contem¬
poraries who were less heralded
in their lifetime, such as Walter
Bagehot, have grown in stature
with the influence of their writ¬
ing, foe voice of Bright, the
country’s “foremost orator”, has
been all but lost. It was a voice to

which Victorian Britain listened
in great numbers and at voy
great length.

“Last night | lectured to a very
large meeting of working men on
‘the causes of the fall of wages’, X
spoke two hours and then fra 116
discussed points raised,” wrote
Bright to Cobden in 1843. The
Free Trade Hall in Manchester -
be was for many years a
Manchester MP, after first
representing Durham — would
repeatedly be filled to standing
room as the eager industrialists
of the city listened to an after-
noon-long speech from foe great
man. His speeches from the back
benches of the House of Com¬
mons regularly filled 20 columns
of Hansard

Bright spoke with enthusiasm
and sarcasm, with a flow of
statistics (something never be¬
fore attempted in British poli¬
tics) mixed with foe language of
tbe Bible and Milton, foe stern
Quaker’s two favourite sources.
He spoke in a resounding voice
and in p erfect prose, using notes
that he would surreptitiously
stuff into the top hat which be
put in front of him.

B ut history best remem¬
bers epigrams rather
than three-hour ora¬
tions. Though some of
Bright’s phrases —
“England, foe mother of Par¬
liaments”, fra example — have
passed into foe language, the
power that he held over Vic¬
torian England seems now elu¬
sive. His call for peace at foe
start of foe Crimean war gives a
flavour of wfaal was in those
great orations:

“The angel of death has been
abroad throughout the land; you
may almost hear the beating of
his wings... He takes his vic¬
tims from tbe castle of foe noble,
the mansion of the wealthy, and
the cottage of the poor and tbe
lowly, and it is on behalf of all
these that I mflto» this

solemn appeal.”

Bright belonged to no political
party. He loathed the “Cora-
servatives” and bitterly hated
Palmerston and the Whigs. His

political model was America
with its universal ballot, strong
industrial base, separation of
church and state, and its absence
of an aristocracy. (One of the
problems of Britain's foreign
policy was that it was “neither
more nor less than a gigantic
system of outdoor relief for the
aristocracy”.)

When many of John Bright’s
own class — be was a wealthy
textile industriaiisi from Roch¬
dale — supported the Confed¬
erate states in the American civil
war. Bright rushed to the support
of the Union. The aristocrats
were happy to see the break-up
of a rival power and many mill
owners, starved of cotton,
seemed equally happy to shelve
their consciences. Even The

Economist, which had been
founded in 1843 to support
Bright’s twin campaigns for foe
repeal of the Cora Laws and tbe
end of capital punishment,
showed signs of sympathy with
foe South.

Palmerston — “the hoary
imposter” — The Times (Bright
could not understand how any
honest man could allow it into
his home), and, shamefully,
Gladstone, sided with the
Confederates. Bright, alone
among leading parliamentari¬
ans, urged support for the
Union. “Magnanimity and not
meanness should be our course
in regard to a country in such
extreme difficulty.”

He corresponded with Abra¬
ham Lincoln; predicted that

America would rapidly grow to
be the dominant economy in tbe
world, ami confessed to Mrs
Harriet Beecher Stowe that he
was an American at heart

But the Americans, like every¬
one else, fefi short of John
Bright’s most important mea¬
sure and greatest legacy: free
trade. Bright understood more
dearly than Cobden and the
othra Com Law re fo rm er s, more
dearly than perhaps any man
but Adam Smith, that free trade
was foe most effective foe of all
privilege, prejudice and in-
* humanity.

He understood with a binding
insight, only glimpsed by others,
that any impediment to free
trade always incurred an unjusti¬
fied cost that had to be paid for.

like a hidden tax, by every
citizen in the land.

As early as 1843 be stood for
election “as a free trader and
therefore as the candidate for foe
working dasses”. This is the link
— between free trade and social
progress — that makes John
Bright so attractive to a modem
Conservative.

As British industry grew up
into an establishment power of
its own in Bright's old age,
protectionists started to emerge
among the manufacturing
dasses. Many of their sneak
phrases were the same as today:
demands for “fail” trade rather
than free trade, for “reciprocal”
trading relations rather than
open ones. (Only the bogus call
for “level playing fields” was
misting from those late Vic¬
torian protectionists, whose poli¬
cies were so soon to bring about
an eclipse of British prosperity.)

B right would have none
ofit Free trade was the
weapon of peace. If a
country refused to have
“fair" trade with Brit¬
ain that was its loss, not Brit¬
ain’s. Bright, veteran
campaigner for progressive so¬
da! policies, recognized that
protectionism, however well dis¬
guised, was always tbe friend of
reaction. This led him to posit¬
ions that more muddled minds
could not follow.

Many of his allies wanted
“sanctions” against slave-pro¬
duced sugar, claiming that its
import both encouraged slavery
and was unfair competition.
Bright, the scourge of slavery,
look foe opposite view: the
competition office trade would
liberate the slaves and benefit
tbe British consumer. Free trade
was a policy, both radical and
progressive, from which only
good could flow.

A century may have muffled
Bright’s ringing oratory but it has
not silenced this dear call, as
necessary to us now as it was to
Victorian Britain.

QTkoM Nmnpapm, IMS

The author is Conservative MP
for Kensington.

Commentary - Janet Daley

To a wider appeal

What foe Government has
dearly been hiring to inspire,
both in the nation’s artistic life
and in its higher education
system, is an American model of
private philanihrophv. As the
economy becomes more buoy¬
ant, and particularly as private
individuals are allowed to keep
more of their wealth, it was
expected that there would be
more scope for support of nat¬
ional institutions by participat¬
ing dozens. Central government
could withdraw from its un¬
healthy monopoly of academic
and artistic subtidy, unhooking
education and the arts from their
centralized dependency.

What the desire to import
American beneficence may have
overlooked is that the tradition
of educational and cultural
patronage in foe United States is
deeply embedded in its historical
development In Britain, as in
most old European societies,
philanthropy and foe promotion
of the arts have always been
associated with a hereditary
aristocracy. The newly-rich
coukl presume to enter into such
patronage when their respect¬
ability was sufficient for them to
qualify as possible entrants to
aristocratic social circles. The
endowment of an Oxford college
or a major gift to a national
museum was recognizable as a
rite of passage into the inheriting
classes.

The US had no aristocracy
and created itself in deliberate
opposition to such hierarchical
societies. The self-made rich
were themselves emigrants from
countries whose upper dasses

had oppressed their own fore¬
fathers. Gratitude for their lib¬
eration into an open and
unstratified society was com¬
bined with a sense of respon¬
sibility. As tbe sole owners and
creators of wealth, they pos¬
sessed foe only form of eco¬
nomic power which their new
country had. By setting up
educational trusts, creating uni¬
versities and building concert
halls and museums, they were
paying their moral dues to a
nation they fell they had helped
to create as well as establishing
their social influence;

But tbe Fords and the Car-
negies who set the p recedents for
philanthropy cannot really be
emulated in modern Britain.
Few contemporary individual
(or even corporate) benefactors
could afford to offer subsidy on a
19th-century scale. The Govern¬
ment’s more realistic hope is that
Britons will adopt tbe consistent
donation of private funds, which
are now an everyday convention
among even modestly wealthy
Americans.

An individual leaving a gen¬
erous bequest to his alma mater,
a local industrialist sponsoring a
regional orchestra or building an
art gallery, are commonplace in
foe United States. Most major
corporations regard providing
local an subsidy as pan of their
accepted civic duty- This sense
of social responsibility on foe
part of the business community
is largely absent here.

Industrialists are frequently
pilloried for their short-sighted
meanness in this regard, but
British businessmen are no more

inherently selfish than their
American counterparts; they
have simply not seen themselves
as part of the paternalistic bene¬
factor class.

in Britain, “trade” has always
been despised as a source of
wealth. So much so that tbe
business community, being out¬
side the pale of social acceptabil¬
ity anyway, has lai^ety opted out
of the magnanimity stakes,
particularly in the aristocrati¬
cally-dominated cultural arena.

In the US, corporate giving is
more than a habit passed down
from the founders of industry. It
is pan of the egalitarian attitude
toward education and culture
which permeates American life.

America's Calvinist roots con¬
tain a profound conviction that
education, of foe broadest and
most self-improving kind,
should be for everyone. Not only
should every child have the
opportunity for higher edu¬
cation, but access to foe fine arts
should also be available to
everyone, however provincial or
socially unprepossessing.

This missionary impulse to
spread culture and learning to
foe great mass of the population
has never been a feature of
British life. Not only is high
culture reserved Tor an elite but
education in the true sense (as
opposed to training) is thought
appropriate only for a small
minority. There is no educa¬
tional option here which lies
between the highly specialized A
level/unrversity route and voca¬
tional training. There is, in other
words, no equivalent of the more
general “college education” (of¬

ten aptly described as a “liberal
arts” degree) suitable for the
averagely intelligent, which en¬
ables so many Americans to be
articulate, self-respecting mem¬
bers of their society.

And perhaps most signifi¬
cantly, there is not the flexibility
which allows such a broadly
educated student to find within
himself a capacity for higher
educational achievement and
then to progress by stages to
levels of real academic ex¬
cellence. To arrive at foe highest
reaches of intellectual activity in
Britain is virtually impossible if
one has not been set down in foe
right academic sheep-run from
tbe start.

In this sort of dimate, philan¬
thropy on foe universal, Ameri¬
can sole is most unlikely to take
hokL The US has paid a price for
its premium on equality with a
generally middlebrow, homo¬
genized culture and a system of
undergraduate education which
is often far below our standards.
It is a price which many Europe¬
ans woidd consider too higi. But
those who wish to encourage
American-style generosity must
be dear they cannot have ft both
ways. If higher education and
high art are only for the privi¬
leged few then there are precious
few people who will be prepared
to contribute to them.

An intellectual life which is
rooted is feudal attitudes sees
crass populism as the only
alternative to aristo cra t ic snob¬
bery. It may well be time to tty
for democracy.

The author is a writer and
journalist.

MARCH 25 ON THIS DAY

1959

As Sir Edaard Grey, Viscount
Grey ofFaBodon (1862-1833) had
been Foreign Secretary from
1905 to 1916. He is r em ember ed
by historians as a statesman and
by omithoiagists as a writer on
bird life.

GOLDEN AGE
OF THE ENGLISH
. HOUSEHOLD

From onr own correspondent
PARIS, MARCH 24

In a small but high-class
restaurant near foe Gore de n&rt,
M. Jules Mailer works as heed
waiter. With the minimum of
encouragement, he is prepared to
talk at length and with great
feeling and simplicity about a
vanished aspect of Rngtiah lift.
From 1923 to 1928 he and his
wife, now dead, ware butter and
cook-housekeeper to Laid and
Lad y Grey of Rall odon at
WQsftnrd Manor ha Wiltshire.
Whan Lady Grey died in 1928,

M- and Mae. Mailer left Lord
Grey’s service and, after a few
mouths at the Savoy Hotel,
returned to France.

M. Muller regards those days
as the best of his life, and so,
indeed, he makes thum sound.
Tbe Greys were, in ids testimony,
model employers: “You wouldn’t
find our gentry treating their
servants in the ewwiripniiB man¬
ner that the Greys treated us”,
and he goes on to speak of the
four huge meals a day, “phis
mo rn ing tea” enjoyed by all the

man, housemaids, a lady’s maid,
and tmrsery staff. As well as Lord
and Lady Grey, there were Mr
David and Mr Stephen Tennant,
and Lord Glencoimer, all of them
the children of Lady Grey's first
marriage with the first Lord
Gknconner: and at the week¬
ends there were big parties. Yet
tbe atmosphere of Wikford was
that of “home” — the word is
non-existent in French and the
atmosphere is often lacking in
France, which is, perhaps, the
reason why French people who
have seen it at close quartos are
isuafly so enthusiastic.

In spite erf the luxury of the life
and the comings and goings. Lord
and Lady Grey, M. Muller

servants, and the consideration
and sympathy invariably dis¬
played by Lord and Lady Gray
towards their employees.

It was a big household: five iu
the kitchen, a butter ami foot-

pie people: “There were no orgies
at WilsfoTd." he says - a state¬
ment which is not difficult to
believe of the half-blind former
Foreign Secretary and his wife.

The Midlers were at Wikford
for most of the time, although on
occasions they did accompany
foe Greys to London, where Lord
Grey once took M. Muller to
Buc k i n g ham Palace as his foot¬
man In order that he might see

the King and Queen. But, memo¬
rable though tins was, it Is upon
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POLLS APART

Expanding scope of medical audit Not so easy to clean up the place

four years the people of the Soviet
v/S; § one through the motions of

for their national legislature, the

“preme Soviet They have entered the polling
fcon, picked up a ballot paper with a single
pnnted on it, and placed it without more
y the ballot box. The house-bound,
“OJPital-bonnd and stragglers have had the
oaflcj box brought to them.

:r A few brave souls might cross out the single

name or spoil the ballot paper, but the result
w °nld be the same: a 99 per cent turn-out
^SWtering 99 per cent support for the single
nominee. It was not just the Soviet Union’s
cntics in the West who regarded the exercise as
a cynical abuse of the democratic process. The
TOult was, as the Soviet leadership acknowl-
e deed, an alienation of the people from
political life.

The Supreme Soviet elections of 1989, the
first stage of which is held tomorrow, are
already different How different even Mr
Gorbachov may not have envisaged when he
announced the new arrangements last summer.

Then, he outlined a new body — the 2^250-
strong Congress of People's Deputies — two-
thirds of which would be directly elected in
national elections. The Congress would elect a
. new Supreme Soviet of 422 deputies who
would become full-time politicians holding
office for a maximum of two terms or 10 years.

When details of the new electoral procedures
were published Last autumn, they incorporated
numerous precautions to minimize the risks to
the Communist Party and government est¬
ablishment The nomination process was
hedged about with complex requirements fora
large quorum at election meetings and vetting
by electoral commissions.

The stipulation that there should be more
than one candidate per seat was dropped. One
hundred places in the new Congress were
guaranteed to the Communist Party; another
650 were distributed among the so-called
public organizations, ensuring that Com¬
munist Party members and activists have
more than one vote — and possibly as many as
seven or eight. The indirect election of the new
Supreme Soviet meant that any maverick who
somehow surmounted all the obstacles could—
and still can — be weeded out.

Many of these precautions have already had
their effect. True to form, the Central
Committee nominated a slate of precisely 100
candidates, obviating the need for anything
more than a token election for the party's
allocation of seats. Constituencies in many
parts of the country have followed suit
Residents in those regions will tomorrow have
the choice only of accepting or rejecting the

nominated candidate. Yet the small opening
that has been created in the Soviet election
system has allowed through a far wider range of
people and permitted the airing of a more
diverse set of issues than could have been
expected. In some areas, it has encouraged
fervent public participation. It continues to
surprise.

Only in the last week of the campaign has the
strength of support for Mr Boris Yeltsin, the
former Moscow party leader, become visible in
street demonstrations in his favour. A sense of
personal grievance combined with public
responsibility seems to have inspired him to
stand for election — and Muscovites have
flocked to his support

The Yeltsin bandwagon can hardly be
welcome to the party leadership, which
thought his career had been ended 18 months
ago. His defiance of the authorities, however,
has given Moscow voters a real choice.

Incipient democracy has been in evidence
also at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, where
Dr Andrei Sakharov’s dogged campaign to be
nominated for one of the Academy’s congress
seats has been rewarded with a re-run of the
nomination process. For Dr Sakharov it was
not justification enough for the “old guard” to
.rite tradition in support of their own
nominations. He and his supporters stood out
for a new style of selection — based on criteria
of popularity and worthiness.

The other, and perhaps the most dangerous, j
areas for the party leadership in Moscow are ;
the Baltic States, where anti-Communist and I
anti-Russian sentiment have combined to
make the defeat of senior Co mmunis t officials |
a possibility. Deals have been done and
rumours circulated in an attempt to minimize
the damage to Moscow's authority. The
Kremlin's response to unwelcome news from
the Baltic will be one measure of how serious it
is about introducing more democracy into the
Soviet Union.

In each of these areas — in Moscow, in the
Academy and in the Baltic States — the seed of
democracy has germinated because individ¬
uals have been determined that it should. They
have pursued their objective singlemindedly
and often at great personal cost

Such people are still few in number. They are
the ones who have resisted all the pressure to
accept ideological servitude and gone their
own way.

If the results of tomorrow’s elections show
that the number of such people has increased,
then wittingly or not Mr Gorbachov will have
brought democracy in the Soviet Union a step
closer. That can only be a benefit — to his own
people, and to the West

MR DE KLERK’S EASY TASK

Mr F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's putative new
President and his followers within the ruling
National Party will doubtless permit them¬
selves a small smile of triumph this Easter
weekend. After a bruising battle between the
old and the young lions of the Afrikaner tribe,
Mr P. W. Botha has been brought to his senses
by the bitter realization that he no longer
enjoys the allegiance of his party or his people.

He sacrificed that allegiance and effectively
signed his own political death warrant when he
threatened to postpone a general election
simply to ensure his own continuance in office.
Faced with a choice between Mr Botha's
survival and its own. the National Party finally
left him in no doubt where its loyalties lay.

As Mr Botha prepares for his trek into the
political wilderness. Mr de Klerk has a great
deal of preparation to do. One task will be to
adjust South Africa's extraordinary constitu¬
tion to ensure that the divisions of the past few
months will not be repealed. That will
probably not be too difficult.

Much more seriously, after a decade of Mr
Botha's rule, the country is immeasurably
more isolated and substantially poorer. Its
treasury has been drained not merely by the
flight of foreign capital, but by regional wars —
the price demanded by the army for enforcing
security through the barrel of a gun — by a
swollen bureaucracy and by the costs of
coercing rather than negotiating with black
South Africa.

The siege society over which Mr Botha
presided has also bred a degree of corruption
on the fringes of government which, if nothing
else, gives ample credence to South Africa's
claim to be an African state. Despite the
promises of South Africa's ’’Prague spring"
when, with Mr Botha temporarily out of the
way. Mr de KJcrk and his cabinet colleagues
appeared to question the remaining fun¬
damentals of apartheid, it is too early to say
what this may bring.

Substantially younger, more accessible and
flexible than his predecessor and with, a more
secure faith in parliamentary government, Mr
De Klerk will almost certainly preside over the
demise of the “securocracy”, the pervasive
security establishment which effectively sup¬
planted civilian authority during Mr Botha's
rule.

He will also benefit from a marginally more
relaxed international environment created by
the Angolan-Namibian settlement and by the
Soviet Union's pressure on the African
National Congress to negotiate with Pretoria
rather than wait in vain for a military victory.

Whether or not Mr de Klerk will be able to
climb through this window of opportunity will
depend not merely on his political skills. He
must show himself willing to abandon his
commitment to the group rather than the
individual as sole instrument for achieving a
lasting political accommodation with South
Africa's black majority.

The initial omens are promising. Although
Mr de Klerk has his ideological roots in the
right of his parly, he has already shown a
willingness to take on board the concerns of its
more liberal wing.

He is young enough not to have been party
to the construction of the apartheid edifice. But
he is also astute enough to know that it cannot
be maintained without entrusting continued
power to the security establishment which he
dislikes.

In his first years in power, anxious to secure
his place in history, Mr Botha began the
process of reform. He thus opened the
floodgates to far greater change.

Mr de Klerk knows that his place in history
will depend on whether, like Mr Botha, he tries
to close the gates, or whether he can summon
up the skill and the courage to ride the flood.
.As he contemplates that challenge he must
know that getting rid of Mr Botha was, of all
the tasks he must face, much the easiest.

Forest exploitation Airport security

Freni Mr B. .V. Howell
Sir. Professor A. M. Ozorio de
Almeida (March li) might well
have added that Rmain. having
been for centuries in ihc forefront
of forest exploitation, is in no
position to criticize Brazil for
following our example. Having
stripped 90 per cent of our own
forest cover to produce, it appears,
unwanted farmland, we might
consider our own situation, which
is liar worse than that of Brazil.

Oar profligacy forces us to
exploit more of the softwood
resources of Canada. Scandinavia,
and Russia than any country
except Japan and USA — in fact
some 14 per cent of ail the fragile
surplus of world supplies.

Thai this cost us (mostly for
softwoods! f6.63S million in 1988
seems not to worry the present
Government. Yei we have unused
land suitable for softwood trees; a
balance-of-pay™*-’ 0 . 15 problem: an
obligation to contribute to saving
the ozone layer, and this Govern¬
ment has failed to achieve ns
niodest tree-planting target in
every year, by a w ide margin.
Youfs'foith fully,

B. N. HOWELL

^ ptoda nd. ivy bridge. Devon.

From \fr B. Adamczewski
Sir, I don't know from where Dr
Swire (March 23) gets the informa¬
tion that “the [Lockerbie type]
bomb would have easily been
identifiable on X-ray”. Our in¬
stitute has pictures of these kinds
of bomb and their X-ray machine
images and they certainly do not
allow an operator to identity them
as a bomb easily.

The idea that the Lockerbie
disaster could have been avoided,
were it not for incompetence or
negligence by British, US or
German security authorities or
airlines, is dearly not justified by
the facts as available at the time
and its propagation makes no
contribution to the fight against
this kind of terrorism.

U may even deflect public
support from the measures that
Western governments might have
to take, once the real culprits and
their likely state sponsors are
identified.

Yours faithfully.

B. ADAMCZEWSKI
(Deputy Director).

Institute for the Study of
Terrorism.

65 Blandford Street, WL
March 23.

Women who work

From Mrs Alison Maguire
Sir. I returned to work in 1977 in
order to maintain my skills in a
very fast-moving industry (com¬
puting). After paying for the care
of my children out of net income I
was left with £5 per week. Had tax
relief been available. I would have
used it to pay for a qualified
nanny, but as it was I could not
break even unless l used untrained
mothers’ helps.

For the last nine years our
Government has been led by a
“working mother”, yet qualified
scientists like Dr Hutchinson
(March 2!) still need to calculate
whether they can afford to go an
using their scarce professional
skills.

Moreover, whatever arrange¬
ments Dr Hutchinson makes, at
whatever the cost, pompous se¬
nior judges will still consider her
to be an "unsatisfactory” mother
(Kate Brown, Friday Page, March
17).

It really is almost enough to
make me go into politics.

Yours sincerely,

ALISON MAGUIRE,

Stable House. 19 High Street,
Little Shdford, Cambridge.

March 21.

From DrB. J. Boughton
Sir, I attended many of the
Bir mingham mediryl audit meet¬
ings to which Professor Sir Ray¬
mond Hoffenberg refers in bus
letter of March 20. On average
only four of the 120 consultants in
the hospital attended these meet¬
ings, and Sir Raymond was never
present himself, presumably
because of the pressures ofwork at
the Royal College of Physicians in
London. One cannot help, there¬
fore, being a little cynical about his
own initiative to force other
consultants to attend medical
audit meetings and his attempt to
portray this as a step forward.

. But bis proposals for a form of
medical aud it ran for doctors and
by doctors will do very little to
improve the NHS and he should
be challenged to outline the
improvements in health care
winch he thinks his form of
medical audit will achieve.

In direct contrast to the recom¬
mendations of the parliamentary
White Paper, Sir Raymond dearly
wishes to exclude hospital admin¬
istrators from medical audit
because he wishes it to be re¬
stricted to the clinical perfor¬
mance of doctors. Medical audit
should however be seen as a
powerful tool for solving many of
the serious problems confronting
the NHS, and should concern
itself with much more important
matters than the dinip ii problems
of the medical profession.

Administrators can understand
it when consultants do not work
their contracted NHS sessions or
if patients have their admission to
hospital cancelled or their opera¬
tions delayed. They can under¬
stand if elderly patients with
incurable diseases are kept alive in
expensive kidney dialysis or inten¬
sive therapy units, only to die
predictably as soon as this support
is withdrawn. They can under¬
stand it when one consultant
treats only half as many patients
as another, or uses half the entire
hospital pharmacy budget on
expensive experimental drags.

They have little difficulty in
understanding whether a consul¬
tant's junior medical staff are
trained well enough to pass their
speciality examinations and
whether a consultant's pro¬
fessional standards are approved
by his peers.

Hospital managers can readily
understand the real issues which
medical audit should address but,
unlike consultants, the hospital
managers have a duty to the NHS

Bar’s ‘hymn sheet 5

From Mr Roger Henderson, QC
Sir, The Lord Chancellor is re¬
ported (March 16) as accusing the
leaders of the Bar of trying to stifle
other members of the Bar from
voicing disagreement with the
case that the Bar is trying to make.
He did not make that accusation.
He drew attention to a number of
reports, including Bar News which
referred to a briefing session where
people were encouraged “to sing
from the same hymn sheet”.

The Bar consists of groups of
practitioners who specialize in
very different fields of legal work.
The Green Papers, if im¬
plemented, would affect them
very differently. We recognize
this. Some have special concerns
which conflict with the special
concerns of others. All must be
encouraged to speak freely, and we
have taken great pains to try to
elicit all the varying opinions and
to encourage them all to voice
their different concerns.

We consulted all chambers be¬
fore the Green Papas were pub¬
lished. in anticipation of radical
review. We have continued that

Abbey flotation

From Mr Cyril Cox
Sir. As a personal investor with
Abbey National Building Society
and the first-named trustee of
other accounts. I have received
several voting forms.

The transfer document makes it
clear that only one vote can be
exercised and draws attention to
the potential conflict of interest
from which it appears that even if
I forgo the vote in respect of my
persona] account and exercise the
vote for flotation in respect of one
trust account some beneficiaries
could have a claim against me.,
and probably all if I voted against
or abstained!

Is the only solution for all in a
similar position that the vote will
be against flotation?

.Yours faithfully,

CYRJLCOX,

Lower Park, The Wails,

Mistley,

Manningtree.

Essex.

March 20.

Mt Athos curbs

From the Very Reverend Milun
KostiC

Sir, 1 would like to endorse Derek
Hill's plea (March 9) for an easing
of restrictions on the number of
Eastern Orthodox pilgrims all¬
owed to visit the Mount Athos
monasteries. While the Greek
authorities should be congratu¬
lated on their success in prevent¬
ing an annual influx of casual
tourists disturbing the prayer and
peace of the monastic community,
their current practice of allowing
in only a very small number of
genuine pilgrims has caused an¬
guish to many good Christians.

At present only a few non-
Greeks are allowed to enter Athos
daily. The quota covers not only
Western visitors but also pilgrims
who belong to the Orthodox
churches of Eastern Europe,

and the patients to implement
Improvements. It is this potential
interference in its pronsadna]
hegemony that the Royal Goflege
ofPhyticiansistry^toside-stcp.
The college has a vital role to play
in tire training of specialists, but its
pr o po sa ls for medical audit are
nothing less than a political move
to protect the medical profession
from the light of public scrutiny.

There are many deeply worry¬
ing changes laid out in the NHS
White Paper, but Mr Clarke's
proposals for medical audit are
long overdue and be will render
the British public a great service if
he ignores the Royal College of
Physicians on this particular issue.

Yours sincerely,

B. J. BOUGHTON,

Department of Haematology,
Queen Elizabeth Hospital,.
Edgbaston,

Birmingham 15.

March

From Sir Christopher Pinsent
Sir, Anent your leader, “Phy¬
sicians judge themselves” (March
16) and comment by the President
of the Royal CoUegeofFhysaans,
I recently attended as com¬
plainant's companion an inquiry
arranged by the National Health
Service into treatment prescribed
by a consultant The procedure
involved two assessors, doctors in
the same discipline as the consul¬
tant, whom thqy interviewed first
They then saw the complainant,
and finally the consultant again.

The interview with the com¬
plainant was marked by much
consideration and courtesy. The
a sse s so r s* conclusions in their
subsequent report, however, were
four short incontrovertible plati¬
tudes carefully. drafted to bear
only lightly and by inverse im¬
plication on the foiling * com¬
plained of. It was difficult not to
divinea rather stronger concern to
save the consultant embarrass¬
ment than to be seen to be
answering the patient's grievance.

The prevailingly masonic cast
of the Oath of Hippocrates, and
injunctions by doctors' insurers
not to admit fault — for doctors,
like motorists, may indeed now be
seen as at the controls of poten¬
tially dangerous machinery — «*n
in combination form a serious
obstruction to trust between
patient and physician.

Does the White Paper really
address this problem?

Yours faithfully,

CHRISTOPHER PINSENT,

The Chestnuts, Castle HiU,
.GmJdfonLSurrcy..

consultation process seven days a
week, and at no time have we
sought to gag anyone. Instead, the
tram is that we have positively
exhorted all members of the Bar to
brief their MPs, whatever may be
their opinions.

We have been advised that if the
subject of debate is complex —
which it is —and if the knowledge
of the system, even by MPs and
other professionals, is limited —
which again it is - it is essential to
concentrate upon a few points; to
simplify the issues; and to help
people to explain those points. I
believe that that advice is sound
What the Lord Chancellor
asked rhetorically was whether the
leaders of the Bar were showing
true independence of mind We
are certainly trying to do so — for
instance, on the question of
banisters' direct access to the lay
client and the widest form of
judicial preferment
Yours faithfully,

ROGER HENDERSON
(Chairman, Public Affairs
Committee of the Bar),

2 Haitourt Buildings,

Temple, EC4.

March 22.

Tachograph timetable

From Mr F. Kay

Sir, Chris Partridge's article,
“Road's end for smoking lorries?'
(March 16) staled that tacho¬
graphs would be phased out in
1992. With 500,000 instruments
in service on vehicles with an
average life of eight years the
transition to a computerised de¬
vice would be necessarily slow.

In addition, about a quarter of
the heavy commercial vehicle
fleets in the UK operate only one
or two vehicles and are unlikely
candidates for “computerised
tachographs” even if the EC
regulations were to be changed to
permit their use to control drivers’
hours.

Our forecast is that tachographs
will still be in service on many, if
not most, commercial vehicles in
the year 2000.

Yours faithfully.

F. KAY (Director and General
Manager).

Lucas Kienzie Instruments Ltd,

36 Gravelly Industrial Park,
Birmingham 24.

March 17.

including my own — the Serbian
Orthodox Church.

I know of many Serbs both from
Yugoslavia and the Serbian dias¬
pora in die West who have been
prevented by Grade red tape from
malting a pilgrimage to the splen¬
did Serbian monastery of Hilas-
dar, founded in 1219 by St Sava,
the first archbishop of the auto¬
cephalous Serbian Church. Trav¬
elling from afar, some of them
reach Salonika only to find out
they cannot proceed to Athos
because the Greek authorities
refuse to grant them entry permits
as the daily quota has already been
used up.

Imagine the disappointment of
these devout Christians who have
to turn bade having Med to fulfil
the long-cherished dream of pay¬
ing their respects to the monastery
which has played (and still plays)
such an enormously important

From the Leader qf the London
Borough (fHounslow
Sir, Environment Secretaiy Nich¬
olas Ridley, backed by tire Prime
Minister, has declared war on,
inter Mia, litter on motorways
(report, March 18).

When the Prime Minister re¬
turned from Israel in 1986, die
criticised the amount of litter on
the M4 between Heathrow and
London. At that time we pointed
out that we acted as agents for her
Department of Transport to do
this work, and that we were being
given completely inadequate
fends to do the job property.

What has happened since then?
My officers have repeatedly bat¬
tled with the Department of
Transport to allow us to increase
the frequency of our litter-piddng
— which has to be done by hand —
on the verges and central reserva¬
tion of part of the M4. Until
1986 we were only allowed a
frequency of three times a year,
but because of our strong protests
the frequency was increased to 13
times a year.

Them out of the Woe, on
February 23 this year, the depart¬
ment asked if we could use some
of their surplus funds to increase
the frequency for the next four
weeks. Were they aware of this
impending clarion call for action?

Of course we agreed and set up a
weekly schedule. But the depart¬
ment made it dear this was not a
radical change of heart, but a
“one-off” operation, for which
they will be paying £6,000.

You should also be aware that
no funds are made available to cut
grass on the motorway unless it
has grown so high that it creates a
safety hazard, such as obscuring
motorway signs. Yet we believe
that if the verges were kept neatly
cut it would discourage motorists
from littering them, and make it
easier for us to dean.

To place the blame on the
shoulders of local authorities is
blatantly unfair , and privatising
the motorway cleaning service will
not make the slightest difference
to the present situation unless the

Veterinary closures

From Major Derek AUkusen
Sir, The decision, to be taken
shortly, whether or not to dose the
Department ofQimcal Veterinary
Medicine, at Cambridge, and the
Scottish Veterinary School, at
Glasgow, is dearly one of great
importance for the future of
veterinary education and research
in this country.

The dosure of die Cambridge
Veterinary School, based at one of
the finest scientific universities in
the world, near to Newmarket,
with its world reputation as a
centre for thoroughbred breeding,
training, racing and practical
equine research, would be a major
setback to veterinary knowledge
in Britain.

1 have been president of the
university's riding dab these last
21 years. -Our policy has always
been to encourage student vets to
learn to ride in order to obtain
greater practical knowledge and
experience with horses which will
benefit them later in their pro¬
fessional careers.

One of die strongest arguments
in favour of keeping these two
great veterinary schools is that we

The measure of Gill

From the Editor oj The Tablet
Sir, Mr Ronald MacDonald
(March 21) questions whether The
Tablet can be considered a truly
Catholic weekly after publishing
Dr Nuttgens’s estimate of Eric
GilL He thereby implies that a
review can be taken to indicate
editorial approval. Of course it
cannot I do not tell my reviewers
what to say. Dr Nutigens is a
highly valued contributor to The
Tablet who knew Gill personally.
He has a right to express his
judgement

If Mr MacDonald does want to
read Tablet reviews as expressing
editorial opinion, he might like to
look at the tead review in the issue
of March 11, published shortly
after that of Dr Nutigens. specifi¬
cally on the subject of incest
Dr Nutigens tried to face the
huge problem Fiona MacCarthy’s
biography raises for anyone who

Public funding

From the Director of the National
Council for Voluntary
Organisations

Sir, The debate about the Govern¬
ment’s intention to fund the Grant
Maintained Schools Trust (par¬
liamentary report, March 21)
should not be allowed to obscure
an important principle. It is quite
proper for an independent vol¬
untary organisation, whether a
charity or not, to use public
money for the full range of its

role in the history of the Serbian
Church and nation.

Some years ago, I myself had to
wait in Salonika for two days for
the permit to proceed to Hilandar.
The fact that I am a Serbian
Orthodox priest did nothing to
speed up the cumbersome permits
procedure. I was lucky in reaching
my destination eventually but
many of my compatriots simply
cannot afford to wait in Salonika
for days.

Surety, the authorities should
put an end to this discrimination
against non-Greeks and should
devise a system which would
enable genuine pilgrims to visit
their sacred places cm Mount
Athos more easily.

Yours faithfully.

MILUN KOSTIC,

St Sava’s Serbian Orthodox
Church,

89 La n caster Road, Wit.

Department of Transport pro¬
vides adequate fending.

For the Prime Minister to
suggest that young volunteers
should tackle the problem ignores
the inhwy at dangers involved in
working on one ofBrilain’s busiest
highways, where extensive train¬
ing and experience in safety'
methods are essential. ;

Yours sincerely,

DAVE WETZEL, Leader,

London Borough of Hounslow,
The Civic Centre,

Lampton Road,

Hounslow,

Twickenham, Middlesex.

March 20.

From Mr W. Q. V. Balchin
Sir, “A £1 million campaign to
clear up litter on motorways ancf
znqjor trank roads was launched
by the Department of Transport
yesterday at the personal behest of.
the Prime Minister”.

Excellent! But what a pity that
Mis Thatcher doesn't travel by.
British Rafl. Surplus sleepers,
redundant rails, crushed concrete
and other debris arising from
maintenance and construction
work finer the lines, and to this the,
urban population has added in'
many areas a generous contribu¬
tion ofbattered bedsteads, mouldy
mattresses, discarded chairs and a
general fitter of bottles, cans and
paper — all of which presents a
sorry view of Britain to tins tourist
and traveller.

Sadly, as well as constituting an
eyesore, the debris is also readily
available for vandals to build
obstructions across the lines.

Furthermore, if we are to make
a real effort to create a dean and
healthy environment shouldn't
something be done about the
graffiti on the trains, and the tons
of raw untreated sewage deposited
daily on the tracks by rail trav¬
ellers?

Yours faithfully.

W. G. V. BALCHIN,

10 Low Wood Rise,

Ben Rhydding,

Hkley, West Yorkshire.

March 19.

have now ceased to be able to train
a sufficient number of vets in
Britain for our own requirements
and a high proportion of foreign-
trained vets are having to be
admitted to this country from
abroad.

If the Cambridge and Glasgow
veterinary schools dosed there
might well be a totally inadequate
number of vets available in the
next decade sufficiently ac¬
quainted with our national
requirements.

Besides, the ever-increasing
concern of the British public over
food hygiene and the necessity for
a much closer supervision of the
source of our food from livestock
and poultry will put further pres¬
sure on our veterinary profession.

I believe that if the decision to
dose is taken it will be seen in
years ahead to have been ill-
conceived and ultimately most
detrimental to the health of the
British public and the cause of
animal welfare in generaL
Yours etc.,

DEREK. ALLHUSEN,

Manor House, Claxton,

Norwich, Norfolk.

March 22.

lakes Eric Gill seriously as a
religious believer. Those who
assume, in the light of the revela¬
tions about his sexual behaviour,
that his religious commitment ran
be dismissed as hypocrisy have no
problem. There is, for them, no
circle to be squared. For those -
and I am sure they are right — who
do not take that escape route,
there has to be an attempt to
understand how the man who
could carve the Stations of the
Cross in Westminster Cathedral
could also have habitually in¬
dulged in sexual acts which can
only be described as depraved.

We cannot get inside Gill's
mind but Dr Nutigens tried to do
so and his review seemed to me to
offer some enlightenment about
the way things were seen in the
Gill circle.

Yours etc,

JOHN WILKINS, Editor,

The Tablet,

48 Great Peter Street, SW1.

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itself to become involved in party
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question.

Yours faithfully,

USHA PRASHAR, Director.
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Organisations,

26 Bedford Square, WC1.

Names in fiction

From Mr A. D. Petty
Sir, Mrs Elspeth Huxley (March
13) need not fell back on Smith
Jones, and Brown for her chains
ters. The 18th-eentury poet Chris-
topher Smart invented a rich
collection of pseudonyms for him¬
self between spells in "the asylum.

Ebenezer Pentweazfe, Zosimus
Zephyr. Mrs Midnight, Ferdinando
Foot—authors would be safe with
them. Or would they?

Yours faithfully,

AD. PETTY,

75 Farkanaur Avenue,

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CIRCULAR

BUCKINGHAM VaLACE
March 24: The Princess Royal,
attended by Mrs Timothy
HokkmessrRoddam, arrived ax
Royal Air Force Lyneham thi»
afternoon in an aircraft of The
Queen's Flight from Budapest.

Today’s royal
engagement

The Duke of Edinburgh will
attend the 1989 Oxford and
Cambridge Boat Race at MS.

St Godric’s
College

St Godric’s College welcomes
former students and their part¬
ners to the Diamond Jubilee
Ball on Saturday, May 20, at the
Htniingham Club, Ranelagh
Gardens, SW& Tickets £28
from the Ban Secretary, 2 Ark¬
wright Road, London, NW3
6AD. TeL- 01-435 9831.

Dinner

Un i vers i t y College of Wales,

Dr Gareth Owen, Principal of
University College of Wales,
Aberystwyth, and Mrs Owen,
were the guests of honour at a
dinner at the college on Wednes¬
day attended by members of the
college council and senate on the
occasion of Dr Owen's retire¬
ment. Sir Mclvyn Rosser, presi¬
dent of the college, presided. A
portrait of Dr Owen by Mr
David Griffiths, was unveiled
and presented to the college.

Church news

Appointments

The Rev S R Paul SpOSbury,
Vicar. St Peter, Lawrence Wes¬
ton, Bristol, diocese Bristol: to
be also Rural Dean of Westbury
and Scvemside, same diocese.
The Rev Nigel J Stone, Curate,
St Saviour and St George w St
Andrew, Battersea, diocese
Southwark: to be Parish Priest,
St Paul. Brixton, same diocese.
The Rev Edward Swinnerton,
Vicar. Hambleton, diocese
Blackburn: to be Vicar,
Barnacre w Calder Vale, same
diocese.

The Rev Bernard J Wigan: to be
Curate (non-stipendiary min¬
istry), St Paul, Brighton, diocese
Chichester.

Withdrawals of acceptance
The Rev Donald I Haynes has
withdrawn his acceptance of the
appointment as Tutor and
Chaplain to Whittington Coll¬
ege. diocese Southwark.

The Rev William E Hassal,
Vicar, Gemleshaw, diocese
Lichfield, has withdrawn his
acceptance of the parish of
Bunwell, Carlton Rode and
Tibenham, diocese Norwich,
because of ill health.

Church of Scotland

The Rev G Gary Fletcher to

Ardeer, Sievenston.

The Rev Elizabeth S S Kenny to
Caraock.

The Rev Kenneth L Johnston
from Blairbeth Rodger Me¬
morial, Glasgow, to Annbank.
The Rev Robert J Stewart from
Both we 11 to Orwell, linked with
Portmoak.

The Rev Reginald F Campbell
from Castleton and Saughcree to
Kildrum, Cumbernauld.

The Rev James M Davies from
Carmyle, linked with Keamuir
Mount Vernon, Glasgow, to Si
Stephen's, Aberdeen.

The Rev John M Paterson from
Flowerhill, Airdrie, to St Da¬
vid's Memorial, Kirkintilloch.
The Rev Jean Stewart to retire
from Kildalion and Oa.

Clifford Longley

Inquest on the

OBITUARIES

PROF j.otway-ruthven

Historian of medieval Ireland

Tbe Rushdie af&rir caught Western
culture off-guard. For years those who
like to think about the past and future
of civilizations had been thinking
serious thoughts more troubled than
before, but academically and witbont
a sense of urgency. Was retigkm overt
Or was it the Enlightenment which
was overt Wss the tight of Western
civilization beginning to dim, and if
so which candles were they that had
gone out? It was a good subject fora
learned paper.

But suddenly the Enlightenment
and religion were in deadly collision -
not with tbe gently decadent
Ch ristianity of the West but with
fundamentalist Islam of the East -
and everyone's gut reaction was
straight from Voltaire. But the stir¬
ring slogans from the start of that new
movement in human consciousness
look less confident two centuries
later, when the ideas sound like
elides and no one would defend to
the death tbe Nazis' right to drive six
million Jews, with campaigns of
words as much as with gangs of thugs,
into the gas chambers.

There is perhaps no more serious
topic to talk about than this. The
Enlightenment fed so many tribu¬
taries into politics, philosophy,
morality, literature and almost every
other working of the modem mind
that if indeed it is now a spoilt and
stagnant source, those who have tived
by its hanks must start to think about
a move to somewhere more fertile.

The Enlightenment's old enemy
was dogmatic religious faith, so-
called superstition. It is still around
unvanquished, and has learnt a few
good tricks from the battle, even
absorbing into its own system some
of the Enlightenment’s best achieve¬
ments. “Human rights” is virtually a
dogma of tbe Roman Catholic
Church, for Archbishop Lefebrvc was

excommunicated for denying it,
thereby completing one of the great
circular ironies of Christian history.
Voltaire should have been alive to'
marvelatit

The inquest cm foe Enlightenment
has already begun, perhaps in¬
decently as it cannot yet be said for
certain that there is a corpse. It has
begun under the unlikely auspices of
tbe British Council of Churches, but
it is rapidly drifting into a movement
of its own' with secular as well as
religious input In feet those churches
cannot be excluded from the list of all
those other fruits of the Enlighten¬
ment, for their temper, if not their
doctrine, is modem liberal Prot¬
estantism, an inconceivable school of
theology without tbe Ape of Reason.
An examination of religion is not a
bad place to start an examination of
the Enlightenment, as Kari Mara
almost said.

Clustering round the first theologi¬
cal project in this movement are
growing groups of scientists, doctors,
historians, educationalists and simi¬
lar disciplines. Although tbe phenom¬
enon started in Britain h has grown
tentacles in Europe, north and south
America, even, it is said, in Korea.

Its seminal work was "The Other
Side of 1984” by Bishop Leslie
Newbigin, which was commissioned
by tbe council of churches in 1982 as
not mnch more than a shot in the
dark. But he hit his target squarely,
and in terms which did not demand
either a commitment against the
Enlightenment or a commitment to
dogmatic religion in order to join the
conversation. The broader move¬
ment has hardly got a name, though
the core project has set op shop under
the somewhat limp signboard “The
Gospel and Our Culture”.

A turn-off or not, the name does
- nevertheless point to a key concept in

post-Post-Enlightenment study: that
it is impossible even to begin the
exercise from an intellectual position
entirely within the culture offoe post-
Enlightenment era: .there has to be
one foot, or at least a toe or two,
planted , on something right outride
the system. Otherwise, as one critic
has commented, it is like frying to
move a bus while sitting inside it.

During previous phases of the
interchange between religion and
Western , culture, itwas the culture
which judged rdigkro, and under
such judgement religion sheepishly
backed away from those parts of its
belief which were most at risk from

Enlightenment ridicule. Miiades and
resurrections were particularly ridicu¬
lous, so they had to be “reinter¬
preted” in a language intelligible to
modern sensibility . ■ ■

. In this new phase, however, there is.
no longer such a mood of philosophi¬
cal intimidation. Dogma is no longer
a dirty word, not least because one of
Newbjgin’s achievements was to
demonstrate how the apparently self-
contained ideas of post-E nl ig h te n -
meat science and philosophy were in
reality far from sclfevidcnt or objec¬
tively provable, but were themselves
riddled with dogma. He didn't invent
tbe point, for this is a movement with
several begetters, but he focused it.

If science and secular philosophy
rest on assumptions no more nor less
secure than religious faith and of the
same dogmatic diameter, then one of
the key illusions of the Enlightenment
has been shattered and religion need
no longer cringe in the comer. It is a
basic shift of perception.

Before, the teachings of the
Enlightenment were ‘True”, in the
sense of being the farthest point yet
reached in mankind' s quest to under¬
stand reality; and religion was an
atavistic philosophical or sociological

Time-capsule house opens to the public

By John Young

Calke Abbey, near Derby,

“the house that time forgot,”
which the National Trust ac¬
quired in 1985, will open to the
public for the first time today.

Visitors will find themselves
in a Victorian Time capsule”,
an eccentric place, mnch of it
left deliberately shabby, the
home of a family which for
nearly three centuries largely
shot itself off from the world.

Few people had heard of
Calke Abbey until In 1981 Mr
Henry Harpur Crewe, its
owner, offered it to the nation,
with die surrounding land¬
scaped park and nearly 7,000
acres of farmland to meet tax
liabilities off about £8 million.

After protracted negotia¬
tions a deal was agreed where¬
by the Government accepted
the house and abont 1,000
acres of agricultural land,
which forms foe park's
setting.

In March 1985 the house
and tbe estate were formally
handed over to the trust,
together with a £7.5 uriffiaa
“rescue package” to pa; for
futare repairs and mainte¬
nance. The Government pro¬
vided £45 million through the
National Heritage Memorial
Fnnd: the Historic Bnildiags
and Monuments Commission
(English Heritage) and foe
trustees of tbe Harper Crewe
estate each contributed £1
million and an anonymous
ben ef actor a further £750,000.

Tbe trust undertook to find
tbe balance and more than

MMtCASPUWD

£500,000 has since been raised
through mi appeal.

The bouse was buffi! by Sir
John Harpra- on foe she erf a
twelfth century Augnstinian
priory. It owes its present
appearance largely to his
grandson, Sir Henry, who had
aristocratic pretensions, adop¬
ted the family name of Crewe
to which he had no entitlement
and outraged his contemporar¬
ies by marrying a chamber-

Hie eccentric family charac¬
ter was exemplified by his
greet grandson Sir Vamcey,
who amassed a huge collectioa
of stuffed birds ami mammnK,
mounted heads, shells, birds*
eggs and a onions range of
antiques which still dominate
the furnishings.

“We’ve gone to enormous
lengths to beep foe hune as
we fonnd it, despite die huge
programme of repairs,” Mr
James Timer, foe trust's
regional director for foe East
Midlands, said.

The biggest attraction how*
ever is likely to be the Calke
State Bed, originally built for
King George D and later given
iy his daughter-in-law, Queen
Caroline, to Lady Harpur as a
wedding present It was never
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Mr NJD. Adamson
and Miss SJK. Andrews
The engagement is announced
between Nicholas, sou of Mr
and Mia D.A. Adamson, of
Falmouth, Cornwall, and Kay,
daughter of Mr and Mrs SJi.
Andrews, of Winchester,
Hampshire.

Mr W. Annett
and Mrs SJ. Bcreager-Sims
The engagement is announced
between William, only son of
Lt-Col and Mis W.N.P. Annett,
of Chilton Foliat, near
Hungerford, and Suzanne
Ingrid, eldest daughter of Mr
and Mrs Collin EL Berenger, of
AJbutraerque, New Mexico and
Ceykm.

Mr NJVLBinks
and Miss SJLJVf. Hoskin
Tbe engagement is announced
between Nicholas, elder son of
Mr AS. Bioks, MB, BS,
MRCOG. and Mrs J.M. Sinks,
of Sibsey, Lincolnshire, and
Sarah, only daughter of Cdr RJL
Hoskin, OBE, RN (Reid), and
Mrs B.E. Hoskin, of
Palm woods, Australia, formerly
ofRowionds Castle, Hampshire .

Midshipman H-T . Bradwua.
RN

and Third Officer UD. Lewis,
WRNS

The engagement is announced
between Harvey, son of Lieuten¬
ant Commander and Mrs John
Bradnam, of Rattiesmurc, Fife,
and Lacy, eldest daughter of Mr
and Mrs Trevor Lewis, of
Saondersfooi, Pembrokeshire.

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and Mbs FJM. Simpson
The en gag em ent is announced
between Michael, youngest son
of Mr Warwick Charlton, of
Avon Castle, Hampshire, and of
Mrs Marilyn Chariton, of
Barnes, London, and Florida,
USA, and Fiona, youngest
daughter of Mis Patricia
Simpson, of Dim, Norfolk, and
of the late Group Captain K.W.
(Paddy) Simpson.

Mr AJ.E. Dowse
and Miss CA. Brett
The engagement is announced
between Andrew, only son of Mr
J.E. Dowse and tbe late Mrs Jose
Dowse, of Coffiey, Hertford¬
shire, and Gafbenne. eldest
daughter of Mr and Mrs LL
Brett, of Welwyn Garden City,
Hertfordshire.

Mr N. Ei_

and Miss LMJP. Conner
The engagement is announced
between Nicholas, elder sou of
Mr and Mis John Stuart Evans,
of Empsbott, Hampshire, and
Lucinda, eldest daughter of Mr
Laurie Conner, of Chelsea, and
Mrs John Pilley, of Trotton,
Hampshire.

Mr MJ. Fothereffl
and Miss JJVL Peters
Tbe engagement is announced
between Matthew, only son of
Mr and Mrs Michael Fothogill,
of Caynham, Shropshire, and
Jacqueline, youngest daughter
of Colonel and Mrs Nod Peters,
of Chislehurst, Kent.

Mr PJL Holmes
and Miss LS. Rawlins
Tbe engagement is announced
between Paul, son of Mr D.A.
Holmes, of Andover, and Mrs
YA Holmes, of Cobtaam, and
Lucy, daughter of Professor and
Mrs Michael D. Rawlins, of
Newcastle upon Tyne.

Mr J.G. Kerrigan
and Mrs J. Mehaffey
The engagement is announced
between Gordon Kerrigan
(Group Captain, RAF Retd), of
Grange Court, Edinburgh, and
Jean Mehaffey, of Morningside,

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Mr JJ*. Lonsdale
and Miss T.E. Booth
Tbe engagement is announced
between Joseph, son of Mr and
Mrs GJ. Lonsdale, of Ilford.
Essex, and Tanya, daughter of
Mr and Mrs P. Booth, of
Allestree, Derby.

Mr MJ, LoreO
and Mbs ELEJA Gibbons
The engagement is announced
between Mark, only son of Mr
and -Mrs B. Loved, of Axbridge,
Somerset, and Helena, daughter
ofMrhnd Mrs Peter Gibbons, of
Chelsea, London. The wedding
will take place in Herefordshire.

Mr WJ.S. Lynne
and Miss NJ. Spray
The engagement is announced
between William, son of Mr and
Mrs John Lynne, _of Great
Chesterford, Essex, and Nicola,
daughter of Mr William Spray,
of Colby, Norfolk, and Mrs
Jacqueline Spray, of Old
Budanham. Norfolk.

Mr JJP.Mytton
and Mbs D.Kraiaz
The e n g agemen t is announced
between John, son of Mr and
Mrs David R.T. Mytton, of I
Quince House, Bilsington,
Ashford, Kent, and Dee, daugh¬
ter of Mr and Mrs Johannes
Krainz, of Sydney, Australia.

Mr AJL Peake
and Miss AJL Griggs
The engagement is announced
between Anthony, eldest son of I
Mr and Mrs Gordon Peake, of |
Perthshire, and Anne,
daughter of the late Mr Frank
Griggs and of Mrs Griggs,
recently of Jersey.

Mr GJEJL Schmidt
and IVQss D. Leatherbarrow
The engagement is announced
between Kari, elder son of Mr
and Mrs G. Schmidt, of I
Abergavenny, Gwent, and
Denise, the daughter of Mr and
Mrs P. Leatherbarrow, of
Formby, Merseyside.

Dr AJD. WolOe
and Dr KJ. WMcheflo
The engagement is announced ]
between Andrew, son of Mr and
Mrs John Woffle, of Radyr.
Cardiff, and Karen, daughter of |
Mrs Sandra Whichello, of Pens I
Wood, Kent, and the late Mr;
Brian Whichello.

phenomenon which that “Truth” had
somehow to analyse and expfein.

Now.itistheteadnngsofrdigKra-
m this case the' Christian religion -
which are awarded the status of a
prior Truth, and foe culture gathered
round tbe Enlightenment which is the
phenomenon' to be analysed and
explained.

The most subtle insult-to foe
Enli ghtenm ent is foe recent trend to
apply the - insights of so-called
“missiology” to il For many years
European, churches with missions in
Africa and Asia had been worried
about the impact of C hri s tiani ty on
culture. They worried about preserv¬
ing Christianity from contamination
by local pagan colter gradually they
«hn realized that .foe Christianity
they were implanting was infiltrated
by European cultural assumptions
which were also not ”9811 of the
Gosper itself These were the distor¬
tions that missioJogtsts: tried to
identify 'and eliminate; and they
concluded that there were good things
and bad things in foe local “native*’
culture; some to be rejected and some
to be converted into an; emerging
indigmous version of Christianity,
that was genuinely African or Asian
yet still genuinely Christian.

■ It is part of the new missiologkal
thinking to see the Enlightenment as
no more than foe equivalent local
native colfore ofEurope, even to see
in it equivalents to tbe magical cults,
witch-doctors and superstitions that
the first Christian missionaries found
in Africa. They too are therefore
.subject to rejection or conversion.
But that is for from treating ft as the.
leading edge of mankind's objective
search for truth. And, ft must be
admitted, this is to see it not so
differently from the way that Mus¬
lims see it - though with more love,
less incomprehension and di^usL

Professor Jocelyn Otway-
RUfoven, one of foe foremost
authorities on medieval Irish
history, who died on March 18
in a Dublin mxrsing .bonae at

She was Ireland's most
distinguished medieval his¬
torian. la 1939 she published
The Kings Secretary and The
Cignet Office in the 15th

foe age of 79, was a woman of,- Century which firmly estab-
formidable intellect and lished; her reputation.. Her

distinguished .academic

a chiev e m ent.

ate was bom in 1909 into a
well-known Ascendancy fam¬
ily whose seat was at Castle
Otway in Go Tipperary. Her
father was killed in the Fust
World War. On-her mother’s'
side she was related to Roger
Casement; a connection of
which she seldom spoke.

Otway-Rnthven was edu¬
cated in Dublin and.read
History at Trinity College
where she took a first-class
degree. She was elected to a
non-foundation scholarship in
1 929—amost unusual honour
for a woman at that time —
and. subsequently became foe
fust woman feDow of the
college in 1968. In 1932, she
was elected, to a research
scholarship!!! Girton College,
Cambridge. Six years later she
returned to Trinity where she
remained until her retirement

Known, as "The Of”, her
tall, spare, mannish figure
striding across Front Square
was familiar to generations of
students and foe is remem¬
bered . by many, fin- acts of
kindness.

In 1951, she was elected
Lecky Profe s sor of History, a
Chair which she occupied
until her retirement and, in
tbe same year, was made a
member of the Royal Irish
Academy.

History of Medieval Ireland,

S (Wished in 1968, remains
e standard work on the
subject.

She wrote articles for many
publications and edited texts
' for the Irish Manuscripts
Commission, of which foe
was a member for many years.
Funded by the Levcrhuime
Foundation, she was hoping
to reconstruct the lost rolls of
the Medieval Irish Chancery. v*’-
The completion of .this work - -
was prevented by ill health but
the first part will be published
shortly by the Irish Manu¬
scripts Commission.

Otway-Ruihven was always
active in the affairs of TCI)
and was the first Dean of the
new Faculty of Arts (Human¬
ities). She became treasurer of
foe Academic Staff Associ¬
ation when it became union¬
ized and joined the Irish
Federation of University
Teachers: an unusual interest
for someone from her tra¬
ditional academic back¬
ground. A keen gardener, she
specialized in rode plants and
won many prizes.

She was a staunch
traditional member of the ■
Church oflreland.

A severe stroke had con¬
fined her to a nursing home
since shortly after her
retirement.

She was unmarried.

PROF STANLEY WIJESUNDERA
Expanding education in Sri Lanka

The tragic death at tbe age of
65 of Professor Stanley
Wqesundera in his laboratory
in Colombo at the hands of
extremist gunmen on March 8
has deprived the scientific
world and the international
educational scene of an
outstanding and delightful
figure.

Wijesundera made im¬
portant contributions in many
spheres in and outside Sri
Lanka. Foremost a notable
biochemist, he played a lead¬
ing part in budding up the
department ofbiochemistry in
the University of Colombo
where he was Professor and

(chairman.

Between 1979 and 1988 he
served as vice chancellor of
the university where his range
of organizational skills and
diplomacy became evident
and he was a source of wide
counsel in foe development of
his country’s natio nal scien¬
tific policy.

Despite troubled times he
saw through a massive pro¬
gramme of development
which was to influence the
whole area of higher education
nationally. Successively he
served on a number of im¬
portant committees in Sri
lanka such as the university
grants commission and was
chairman of the committee of
■rice chancellors and directors.

In the international sphere
Wijesundera was an
oustendira number of the
council of foe Association of
Commonwealth Universities
from 1979 and served as its
chairman in 1984-85
contributing in no small mea¬
sure to its expanding role. In
recognition of this distin¬

guished service to ACU the
Symonds Award for 1985 was
bestowed upon him.

Stanley Wijesundera, was
born on December 6. 1923,
and educated at Trinity Coll¬
ege and Dhannajara College,
Kandy, before enterting foe
University of Geylon (as it
was) where he gained a first in
chemistry.

In 1950 he became a mem¬
ber of St Catherine’s College,
Oxford, joining in the re¬
searches of foe department of
biochemistry in the group led
by the late D. D. Woods where
he gained a BSc and a DPhil.
Stanley Wijesundera was an
able researcher with an in¬
terest in microbiology and on
his return to Sri Lanka he
widened his interests in bio¬
chemical problems preferred
by local national needs. But 1
Stanley Wijesundera was also
a talented and dedicated
teacher who responded with
notable effectiveness to foe
multilingual demands necessi¬
tated by a diverse student
body.

Four months ago his retire¬
ment was marked by affec¬
tionate appreciation and it is
especially sad that his plan to
return to active research in his
old department was so sud¬
denly cut short.

In other aspects of life be
had an active interest in rural
life and in foe cultural heritage
of Sri Lanka and he held it to
be a special privilege that he
was the chief lay custodian of
tbe KeJaniya Maha Vihare
temple.

Throughout his career he
was ably supported by his wife
Anoja who, with two sons and
two daughters, survives him.

9

DR JOHN DURRANT

Lord Lloyd of Kilgemm writes:

Further to foe obituary on Dr
John Durrant (March 13) may
I — as a one-time senior
Science scholar of Setwyn
College, Cambridge, and for
twenty years an Honorary
Fellow — also record how
mnch Sehvyn College and
generations of its students
have owed, and will owe, to
ins planning capabilities and
foresight.

Il was entirely due to his
efforts that this one-time small
college was able to extend its
campus on both side s of
Grange Road, Cambridge, to
enable new buildings io be
built to provide not only
accommodation and facilities
for nearly a hundred post¬
graduate research students,
but also to more than double

the accommodation and facil¬
ities for under-graduates and
under-graduettes.

It was also entirely due to
his initiative that the College
has its present magnificent
building, which includes foe
new Senior Combination
room, a junior Combination
room and senior guests rooms.

Durrant became an eminent
expert witness in many patent
actions, both in this country
and in Commonwealth coun¬
tries in which I was Counsel,
and was frequently praised by
foe Courts for foe clarity of
presentation of scientific
matters.

The two highly successful
text books in chemistry re¬
ferred to in foe obituary were,
of coarse, written jointly with
his wife, a brilliant scientist.

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TO DAY: Sr Brian Bailey,
chairman. Health Education
Authority, 66; Mr Humt

Sir

Mr DJMJ. Woodhead
and Miss NJ. Herd
The engagement is announced
between David, elder son of Dr
RJ. and Dr Z.M. Woodhead, of
Timperley, Cheshire, and
Nicola, daughter of Dr and Mrs
GJ.C Herd, of Wantage,
Oxfordshire.

Marriage

Mr SLA. Taman
and Miss S. Sharaha
The marriage took place on
Friday, March 14, in Sacra¬
mento. California, between Mr
Arif 7<ww " and Miss Shefala
Sharaim. A reception in
England is to be held at Leeds
Castle on Saturday, Juno 3.

Lord Crawshaw, 56; Professor
Sir Raymond Firth, anthropolo¬
gist, 88; Profesor Sir Patrick
Forrest, surgeon, 66; Mr Robert
Fox. theatrical producer, 37;
Miss Aretha Fr ankHn, singer,
47; Sir Peter Gibbings, chair¬
man, Anglia Television Group,
60; Mrs Penelope G illian,
writer, 57; General Sir James
Glover, 60; Mr Benjamin
Hanbury, racehorse trainer, 43;
Mr David Hicks, interior de¬
signer and author, 60; Professor
Sir Norman Jeffcoate, obste¬
trician and gynaecologist, 82;

Lord JesseL 85; Mr Burn John,
anger. 42; Sir David ti-an, film
[ direc tor; Si; Sir Bernard Miller,
former chairman, John Lewis
Partnership, 85; Mr Leif Mills,
trade unionist, S3; Mr Peter
Orchard, chairman. De La Roe
Company, 62; Lord Quimon,
H Mr AJJ* Taylor, h is to ria n.

Tennyson,

Peter Walker. MP, 57.

TOMORROW: Colonel
Michael AnseH, former director,
Horae of the Year Show. 84; Mr
Graham Barlow, cricketer, 39;
Mr Pierre Boulez, composer and
conductor, 64; Lord Chetwode,
52: Miss Kyung-wha Chung,
violinist, 41; Lord Fletcher, 86:
Lord Graham of Edmonton, 64;
Judge Jean Graham Hall 72;
Viscount Hawarden. 63; Lord
Hooson, QC. 64; Air Marshal
Sir Peter Horsley. 68; Miss
Elizabeth Jane Howard, nov¬
elist, 66; Sir George Jefferson,
former chairman, British
Telecom, 68; Sir Bernard Katz,
biophysicist, 78; Vice-Admiral
Sir Ian McGeoch, 75; Dr
Kenneth Mellanby, entomolo¬
gist. 81; Sir Leslie Melville,
economist, 87; Mr Didier
Pironi, racing driver, 37; Mr
O.T. Pryce, chief executive,
Dalgety, 55; Mr Harry Rabino-
witz, conductor and composer,
73; Miss Diana Ross, singer, 45.

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Services for Easter Day

An enorm«Mi8 ‘dond ^Sf’sire fii

'■ to pozde ■ astrt®fiflsas '*&

^Schneider, fera ; ^^doco«tft
CnhersifT, and hiscoUeagRes.-

In a rtpM ik Jstm&yncaT

Journal Letters, tiM^descnted
a gigantic, rtag-Hke stjudwe
of gas wiftont any hint of.
stars, as if somebody had:
taken a galaxy, removed all
the stara and left the gas ia
place. 9nt why such a large
structure sboald hare stayed
inviolate for bflGons af years,,
humane from tidal ffisnqitian
by snrronndiBg g a laxies, re¬
mained amystery.

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gate the doad, and theft latest
resnlts are reported la the
enrreat -Issue of - the
Astronomical Joonud. Bat
Uieir results are disappointing
despite a battery rf high-
technology . Itoftruiiy-ntation
trained n its direction, the
graft Hack dond remains as
obdurate and sile n t as ever.

The dead is associated with

n a duster of ^galaxies fin the

coo^dhrtiaa of Leo, and was
originaBy detected by ac ciden t
during a survey of galaxies
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> vlsible light. X-rays-and infra¬

red raftratim using several
gnmdtoMd tetesc^pes, The
IRAS infrared space tele¬
scope audflie:X-cay i &fedte-
aboard the Einstein space- 2
i daft,' they found bo np flp
anylhieg but hydrogea^ .

Their extensiveseardi, they
say, was .an “ado about ranch
nothuyf* Time was no wi¬
dened «tf stars, dust or donds
otfmdecoles or atoms (besides
hydrogen). If there is anything
to be foraid in the dond, it
oust be . very well hidden
-indeed. 1

There woe faints, though,
that “dark matter** may be
around somewhere in the
dond. The edptence of dark
■Matter fa cmrendy more of*
theoretical possibility than an

£ ^wif dkrk matter is only
ddectaWr AomJta ^fleets on
matter visible m
earthen

«h*r some
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idondPb contents, .timreaeareh-
mes are forced to condadetimt
tt ia primordial, a leftover
dnmp of the raw amteritls
nsed ta make stars and gal¬
axies. "Nobody really knows
why ft-has stayed tike that for
soloag.J>Btitsnearestneigh-

homam space might provide a
doe.

The .good seems to be part
of a srirall duster of g alaxi es,
the bt^hiest of whidi is the
s^ial jakxy, Mesrier 9d. As
gal a xies . evolve, titanic
gravitalienal interactions are
thought to tear apart residnal
g>» donds, but the evolution of
th&Messier 96 groap seems to
bare been vmy ordmly: all tim
gahnties appear to be moving
in a way which miaimttes the
rStk of collision, and which
maintains the shape of the
domt •■•...

Henry Gee

Archaeology

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CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL: B HCS
lO M. Rcmosaes OJoytO. Vaughan
wmum in G. Own tranrissel
Sibwum (Tavemert 11 s Eucn.
Mima Breita (WaBon). Now me reaan
blade rfceth Carr. Shaw). The Arch¬
bishop: 3.15 E. Response* OJoyd). St
PauTs Service (HowetoX Christ rtalng
raaln iWnUteD: 6-30 Service ft
aa. Rev Dr C A Lewis.
YORK MINSTER: 7J6 8. 845 HC:
lOS Each. Man tn G fSctiuberu. TTttt
Joyful Eastertide (trwtj. Resooraes
CSmittO. The ArehbMhop: 11.30 M.
Easter Anlherm. Collegium
(HaweDt). Very Rev J Souths
CoUetfum Regale fHowetoj, Rfct heart
Dur Lord t* risen (Vautoian wnuamax
ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL; 8. 9 HC
10^30 M. Stanford In C. Responses

.Vary Rev E Evans: 11-30

‘ the Paschal Candle,
caroaanoa mam Wnanj. Haec dies
(ByrtX Bishop or London: 3-16 E.
Stanford in A. Moae* ana the Children
or Kraal (Handel). Comatlon To Deum
(WattonX Rt Rev K WooUcoraOe B ES.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY; 8 HC lO
M: 1030 Abbey Euch. MNaa Brevis in
D {Mozart*. T t» dMf popiln tim (Mo-
zartX The Dean: 3 E A Pro cr—Inn .
This loyfoi EJtstorBda (BIT Wood).
R esponses (Rose). .Stanford W A.
HaUebda (Handel L Vriy Rev J Lana:
5-66 Organ Recital: 6J50ES. Canon

9.30 HC: 11 FarOUy Conummkm. Rev
I Bentley: 6.30 Rev S Woofcey.
CHELSEA OLD CHURCH. Old
Church StrveL SW3. 7. B. 12 HC: lO
Children's Service: 11 M. Preb CEL
Thomson; 6 R. Preb CEL Thomson.
CHRIST CHURCH. CHELSEA. SWi
B HC- 11 S Euch. Rev S A eland.
OROSVENOR CHAPEL. South
Audtoy Street: 8.19 HC: 11 Proccssfon
& SM. Paokenmesw (HaydnI. Regina
COril (Mozart).

HOLY TRINITY. Brorapton Road.
SWT: 11 Family Communion. Rev J A
K Millar 6^0. Handel's Masstah.
HOLY TRINITY. Prince Consort
Rond. SW7: 830 HC 11 HC Rev Dr

5^6 Or gan Recital: 6JO ES. Canon w

KJL^WABK CATHEDRAL: 9 HC;
11 Euch. Spatoenmesse (Mozart).
Haec dies (ByTdL Easter Anthems.
Bishops of Woolwich & Southwark: 3
E. Wood in F. Britten to C Worthy Is
the Lamb (HanoeO. Very Rev o L
Edwards.

HOLY TRINITY. Sktana Street SWl
8-SO. 12.10 HC 10.30 S EudL Rev K
L Yates.

ST ALBAN'S. Brooke SL EC1: 9.30
SM: 11 HM. KrofMtionesae (Moran).
Fr j Gasket!; 3.30 £ & b. Everona
Service (Murrtll): 530 LM.

ST BRIDES. Fieri street. E04: 11 M
A Euch. Ireland In F. Stanford In C
This Joyful East erode (bit Wood).
Canon J Dales: 630 E. Reraousea
(Lrinhton). Blair In B minor. Ye Choirs
of new Jerusalem (Stanford). Christ
the Lord a risen again (RutterJ.
Halleluiah (Handel). Anon J Dales.
ST CUTHBERT-S. Pi mh aa ch CajtM
sws: lO HC 11 S Euch. Ireland to C
The strife m o'er (Ley). Rev J Vine.
ST GEORGE'S. Bloomsbury. WCl: 10
S Euch A Renewal of BapOsmai Vows;
630 EP.

Euch. Harwood In A naL The Easter
Anthems. Haec dies (Sheppard). The

ST^PAUL'S. Wilton Place. SWl; 8. 9
HC 11 S Euch. Communion Service
in B mi 'Stanford). This Is the day
(HodsonL Easter Anthem (Baker). Rev

C Courtauld.

ST PETE R 'S. Eaton Square. SWl:
B.1S HC 10 Family MaaK_H SM.
Coronsdoo Mass (Mozart). Rev D B
Tnyer.

ST SIMON ZELOTES- Milner StreeL
SWS: 8. 7.45 HC 11 Pariah Commu¬
nion. Darke In. F. Alleluia Psallat
(Mathias). O taste and see (Vaughan
Williams). Preb J Pearce; 6.30 E. This
Joyf ul East ertide (Harris).

ST STEPHEN'S. Gloucester Road.
SW7: 8. 9 LM: IX SM.MlmPMN«gO
pro la rogavri a-obox Motets iGuer-
rerox Fr C Colven: 6 E * H. Fr G

Morgan.

Morgan.

ST VEDAST. Foster Lane. EC2: IX
SM.

THE ANNUNCIATION. Bryanston
StreeL Wl: 11 SM. coronation Mam
(Mozart). Regina CoeU (Mozart): 6 LM
& B.

ST COLUMBIA'S CHURCH OF SCOT¬
LAND. Pont Street. SWl; 11 HC Rev
j H Mdndoe: 6.30 Easter Reading, &

CROWN COURT CHURCH OF SCOT¬
LAND. Cavern Carden. WC2: 11.15
HC 630 Prayers & Readings.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL: 7. 8.
9. 10.30 SM. MNsa Brevis to D
(Mozart). Haec dies (ByrdX Angehs
Domini (CNfWIlH). CariHou de West¬
minster rvicmrX 12. 630. 7; 3.30 V
A B. Matddfirat prtml ttml (Pale¬
strina). lubltate Deo (CabrleU). Pomp
and Carcumnance N o i (Elgar)

ST GEORGE'S CATHEDRAL. South¬
wark: 8. lo. 6 Lie 11 HM. Canon J
Hina.

ST GEORGCS. HanovzrSouara. Wl;
830 HC 11 S Euch. Stanford In B
flat. Te Deum In C (Stanford). The

ST^OLES-tN-THE-FIELDS. St Giles
High SL WC2: 8. 12 HC 11 MP. Rev
O C Taylor: 630 EP. Rev P J

CHAPEL ROYAL. SL James's Palace:
830 HC 11.16 S Each. MM BrivtS
In F (Mozart) Canon A D Caesar.
QUEEN’S CHAPEL OF THE SAVOY.
WC2: 830 HC lllBS Euch. Darke
kl F. R Rev R D Say.

ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE CHAPEL.
Greenwich. SEIO: 830 HC 11
Carcmouiesdi Euch. Yectaolrs of new
Jerusalem (Stanford). The Oiapt&ln.
GUARDS CHAPEL. WriUngtOo Bar¬
racks. SWl; XI M: 12 HCflioc Dten
(Byrd) Stanford m C. Ave_veriKn

TOWER OF LONDON. EC5: 935 HC
11 M. Stale Parade. Brtne n.tn E. O
eWp your hands logethri- t Gibbons)
ThR rnrointr

TEMT4-E CHURCH. Flaat Streri. EC4i
830 HC 11.16 MP A HC. Jesin
Christ Is risen to day. <T nomas)
Responses (SmlOi)_ Stantord jn_ C
Biassed be the God sari Father
(Wesley) This korful EariertJda larr

Wood) The Master__ _„

ST CLEMENT DANES (RAF OtUTCh)
WC2: 9 HC II Euch. M»is lor lour
voices (Byrd) Haec dies (Byrd) Rev M

ST JAMES'S. Cariickhythe. „EC4:
10.30 S Euch. Muu EUensls. Rev J
Paul.

ST JAMES'S. Muswefl HlU. Nlft B
HC 11 HC Rev M Bunker: 630 EP.
Rev G Rowlandson.

ST JAMES'S. Piccadilly. Wl: S30
HC II Euch. Cantata for Easter Day
(Bach). Ray D Reeves. „

ST JAMES'S. Sussex Gardens. W2 8
HC: 1030 S Euch. Coronation Mam
(Mozart). HaUriidah (Handelj. The
Vicar; 6 E: Stanford In C. Blessed be

ST^JCMN^'wOOdT'cHUBCH. NWft
6 HC 930 Pariah Communion: 11 8
Euch. Coronation Mass (Mozart) Haec
Dies (Byrd) The Vicar. 6.40 E. The
Vicar.

ST LUKE'S. Christa. SW3: 8. 12.16
HC 10.30 S Euch. Dark* in F. Since

» ■ man came death iHandeli. Rev S
atsoiu 630 E. Stanford in B OaL
Biesred be the God ewesley) Rev D R
Watson.

ST MARKS. Regents Park Rd. NW1:
B HC 10 Family Communion: II S
Euch. Schubert tn C. HaUehdah
(Handel) Rev T D.Jonas.

THE ASSUMPTION. Warwick StreeL
Wl: 8. IO. 12. 4. 6 LM: 11 SM. Mlssa
in honorem SancO Joseph (Proton).
Terra tremult (Byrd) Pants Angelicas
(Franck i.

CHURCH OF OUR LADY. Urnon
Grave. St John's Wood: 10.46. Nelson
Mass i Haydn). H aec diet (Shepherd)
FARM STREET. Wl: 730. 8.30. IO.
12.16. 4.15, 6.16 LM: 11 HM. Spauer
Mam i Mozart i. Haec dlea tPalesulna)
Exultaie lustl rviadana).

THE ORATORY. Brotnoton Road.
SW7: 7. a 9. 10. 11 Hrillg M«
tHaydn) Haec dies (Palestrina); 330
V4B. Haec Dies (Sheppard) 4.30 7.
ST ETHELOREDA-S. By Place: 11
SM, Mam In C (Schubert) Dura
transimri Sabbatum (Taverner) Toc¬
cata (Durufte). _

ST MARY'S, Cadogan StreeL SW3:
8.30. IO. 11 Mass. O Ouam Olorlcrsuro
(Victoria i. Exultate Justl (V l a d a n a).
12 IS. 6.50

OUR LADY OF VICTORIES. Kensing¬
ton High StreeL W8: 8.30. 10. 12 30.
630 LM: 11.19 SM of The Resurrec¬
tion: 5 V & B.

Setter than a Roman road

Qocfcmaker Gaiy Seal cUs^foying a Faberg6-styte egg dock
of glass fibre nade by Juba &nitii and Sous of Derby, which
Is to grace the Hermitage bar at Moscow's Savoy HoteL

CHAPEL ROYAL. Mammon COOK
83a 12-16 HC 11 M.
Stanford In C. Hare dies (Byrd) The
chaplain: 330 E. This toyuu Easier
tide (arr Harris) Aston tor. Slog ye to
the Lord (Balrnow)

ST MARGARET'S*. Westminster.
SWl: 11 S Euch. Collegium Regale
(HowriB) tf ye be risen again wnn
Christ (Gibbons) The Rec tor.

ST MARTIN IN-THE- FIDOS. WC2:
630 Easter VWL Ceremo n y of Light
& Renewal of Baptismal vows: 8 HC
9.45 Euch. The vicar: li .30 EP. Rev
S Roberts: 2A5 Chinese Service iHCt.
Rev C Lee: 630 EP With Easter
dances. __

AMERICAN CHURCH IN LONDON.
Tottenham Court Rd. Wl: 11 Rev Ron
F Allison.

CITY TEMPLE) HoibORL EC1: 11
Rev D McArthur: 6-30 PhtUn Turner.
CHELSEA METHODIST CHURCH.
King's Road. SWS: 9 Communion.
Rev M Braddjc 11 Rev L Fernando &
Rev M Braddy: 6 HC Rev M Braddy.
HINDE STREET METHODIST
CHURCH. Wl: 11 Rev P Hoar: 630
Rev L Griffiths.

KENSINGTON TEMPLE. I Charis¬
ma uc). Netting HUl Gale, wit: 9. 11
Wynne Lewis: 2.30 William Atttosoa:
6.30 Colin Dye.

ST MARY ABBOTS. Kensington. W8:
8. 12 HC 930 S Euch. The Vicar:
11.16 M. The vicar: 6.30 E. The
Vicar.

ST maryS. Bourne StreeL SWl: 9.
9.46. 7 LM: II HM. Mlssa UI

REGENT SOUARE PRESBYTERIAN
URC. Tavistock Place, wci: 11 Rev
Dr R'Scopes.

SALVATION ARMY (Regent Hall)
Oxford St Wl: 11. 5. 630 CM J

St’aNNE AND. ST AGNES (Lu¬
theran) Gresham Sl EC2: 11 HC. Rev
R R Enghind: 7 Choral V. Barry

ALL HALLOWS BY THE TOWER 11

- Liturgy. EHesstog o I the Paschal

__e & S Euch of the Resurrection.

canon p Deuomr 4 Eucb ai si

afS5&aa£^ss««cwi ! *

6.19 LM: 11 HM. Stos In C (Moz*ri)

Evening QmUclu
Deum {Stanford)

By Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent

New stucBcs on one of the
largest; known Roman aque¬
ducts haVe shown that it was
built to -essemiatty modem
standards xj safety said water
transmission. The channel
success&fly carried a water
supply more than 30 miles,
even though the springs stood
less than'*60 ieet above the
even tual destination so that a

Vierf&rt chaflnelwas needed.

flte aqueduct 'Was built in
I9BC to Nemausus in
Oaui," modem city of
Nimes ia seuthern France. It
seems to hare been designed
by Marcus Agrippa, a ftiend
and colleagiie of Augustus
who was responsible for many
public works of. the. eariy-
Empire.

The-sotare of the water,
whki;l&d!lo supply an urban
pOpixiffioiLof 50,000 was near
ygjiagp of Uzes, some 12
miies'jnorth. of Nunes. The
spnB& yidded mme than six
a day, enough
to give'evoybody in the city
about J50 gallons, bat the
teftsm between spring and,
city was rou^u

-. .^W'proi^^ wai-solved by
buSdfeg' a^31-mfle diversion
to theeaS^$slefr-two serious..

entire Empire, the Font du
GardL This three-tiered bridge,
160 feet h^i and 90ft yards
long, carried the - aqueduct
channel, sealed by stone slabs,
in its upper stdreyrThe hugest
of the arches, some 80 feet
across, would gHow six lanes
to traffic to'pass beneath

-them. ■ ; L - t

The tuic^e^was solid enough
to withstand foe very strong
winds that funnel down, foe
Gardon valley: Professor
George Hauck, of the Univer¬
sity of Missouri, has cal¬
culated that the combined
compressive and ■ tensUe
stresses of a hurricane blowing
at 134 mpb would be needed
to start to lffi foe six-ton
blocks of the .structure: The
highest wind spe^ ieemded'
in foe area are .less than .
I OOmph and exert abort half
the pressure of foe h unicaw:
-the margin of safety against
cracking was “bofh reasonable
and equivalent lb foe“iyjHcal
margins of today”, , Professor
Hauck says. ...

The drop rf ority '56 feet
from the ^priu&jcfo:. d»
ca sttflure, the fostrffinftng ba-
gu 81 tne eatranceid the chy;
allowed an avong^ slope <rf
nnlv 34 cenfimetrS; d»Hf 13

■ of the system, and the -crossing
eftte^Rf^ai^om ■ :
The second' was- smvea oy

inches, per Jaiomow: irp^-,
sor Ham* ; found-

cotofoactingfone of-foe most.

vwater nevermeiess
v-with great enagebce

.v Mafoetnati^moi

'/'the ■

was sealed with a concrete
made from Hme, pork fol and
i fig juice, showed that it would
: be optimal when the water was
60 centimeters deep across the
12, meters width. This applied
: equally in the steeper initial
; portion Of foe aqueduct be¬
tween the springs and the Pont
dn Gard, where the slope was
67 centimetres per kilometre,
and in the do wns t re am por-
! non where it was as low as 3
■ inches per Itilometres-

- The steejmess of the upper
, portion was the result of
wanting to keep foe bridge as
! low as/possible, but even so
the FOnt dn Gard was the
tallest spas the Romans ever
built Surprisingly, the average
, gradient for the lower portion
■ of foe aqueduct, at 19
centi m etres per kilometres,

: allowed an optimal water
' depth of 60tcentimetrcs.

Investigation of the
castdhim at bfime$ showed
' flat, it .had been buSt with

- three lazge drains, in its floor,

and two sluice gates, Thelaner

- allowed the rate of water
! inflow to be measured, and

would alsa hold foe water
:• back for a short time. Profes-
' . sor Hauck calculates that by
'. draining foe basin mindly and
then closihg tire gares, dxmt
|7 20/ntinntes would have been
^ a^m&bie to dean the floorof
r^foe^&sm or . effect minor

Oxford don raises £lm
to save his department

6.19 LM: 11 HM. Mta In C (Moram.
Angriils Donum iCasc wt nl). TT*
vicar. 6 E * B. Mnmu to E. HBOC dlea

Road. Wl: 6 HC 11 Euch. Mara to C
(BevUraven) Vlctltnae naschau Uudcs
(plBUvhani) Rw C Hamm Cooke
6.30 E. Rpv R McLaren
ST MICHAEL-S. Chester SUIM6
SWl: 8.16 HC 11 HC. Rev D C L
Prior: 7 ES. H*V J Crooaiey.

ST MICHAEL'S- CornliB) ECS: 11

II Rev P HiUTO O.

WESTMINSTER CENTRAL HALL
(Mrinodlst). SWl: 11. 6.30 Rev Dr R J
Tudor.

WESTMINSTER CHAPEL. Bucking¬
ham Gafe-SWl: 11. 6.30 Rev Dr R T
Kendall. __

WESTMINSTER MEETING SOCETY

OF FRIENDS (Quakers) 52 St Martins
La WC2; tl. Meeting for worship.

Education!

The Oxford professor who
declared the Turin Shroud a
fefce has raised £1 millio n to
ensure his archaeological sci¬
ences department does not
fold when he retires next year.

Professor Edward Hall,
aged 64, director of foe univer¬
sity’s archaeological research
unit, said foe money had been
donated by 45 businessmen
and “rich friends” and would
be used to create a chair of
archaeological sciences at
Oxford. •

The new post will be filled
by Dr Michael Stanley Tite,
keeper of scientific services at
foe British Museum.

Professor Hall said be did
not think publicity arising
from his research into foe
authenticity of the Turin
Shroud had anything to do
with his success in raising the

Anniversaries

mney.

Oxford University

Today

BIRTHS: Hemy H, reigned
1154-89, Le Mans, France,
1133; Giovanni Amiri, astrono¬
mer, 'Modena, Italy, 1786;
Arturo Toscanini, conductor,
Parma. Italy, 1867; Bria Ban6k,
composer. Nagyszent Mdcios,
Hungary, 1881.

Professor Hall, who runs a
small business maIcing scien¬
tific instruments in his back
garden, has held the unpaid
directorship since the found¬
ing of the department in 1954.

“My successor had to be
paid but there was no way tite
university could raise the
money. So the only way of
preventing the whole depart¬
ment from collapsing was for
me to create the chair by
' was
iork

launched an independent fund
raking campaig n for £200
million last year and is ex¬
pected to begin a “mass
solicitation campaign” of in¬
dividuals next month.

According to figures
pubtised last year at least eight
of the 20 richest people in
Britain are graduates of the
university, including Sir John
Sainsbury, head of the super¬
market chain, Sir Adrian
Swire, a financier, Mr Peter
Lewis, chairman of John
Lewis, Lord Cowdray, chair¬
man of the Pearson group, Mr
Garry Weston, chairman of
Allied Foods, and the Duke of

DEATHS: Nicholas

Hawksmoor, architect, London,
1736; Novalis. pseudonym of
Friedrich. Baron von Handen-
berg, poet, Weissenfels, Ger¬
many. 1801: Anna Seward (*The
Swan of Lichfield*), poet and
novelist. Lichfield,

Stafifordshire, 1809; Caroline
Chisholm, ‘foe emigrants*
friend'. London. 1877; James
Payn, novelist. London. 1898;
Frederic Mistral, poet, Nobel
laureate 1904. Mail lane, Ranee,
1914; Claude Debussy, Paris,
1918; John DrinJwaxer, poet
and dramatist, London. 1937:
Fbisal Ibn Abdul Aziz, king of
Saudi Arabia 1964-75, assas¬
sinated, Riyadh, 1975.

The Treaty of Rome bringing
into being the European Eco¬
nomic Community was signed,
1957. Today is Lady Day,
which, until 1752. was the legal
■beginning of the year.

philosopher, Colon Qanford,
Staffordshire, 1659; Sir Benja¬
min Thompson, Count von
Rumford. physicist, co-founder
of the Royal Institution of Great

Britian, Woburn, Massachu¬
setts, 1753; W. E H. Lecky.
historian, Dublin, 1838: George
Smith, Assyriologist, London,
1840: A. E Housman, poet and
scholar. Fockbury, Worcester¬
shire. 1859; Robert Frost, poet,
San Francisco, i 874; Sir Gerald
du Maurier, actor-manager,
London, 1874: Wilhelm
Backbaus, pianist, Leipzig,
1884.

The value of
aerial studies

Aerial photographs, which pro¬
vide valuable historic records,
are all too often lost or dis¬
carded, according lo foe newly
formed National Association of
Aerial Photographic Libraries
{John Young writes).

itepaas.

■ Source: Sctentffic American,
V<i260No. 3 {March 1989).

Tomorrow

BIRTHS: Konrad von Gesner,
physician, Zurich, 1516; W3-
liam Wofiaston, Ratiombst

DEATHS: Sir Thomas Elyot,
diplomat, Carieton, Cambridge¬
shire, 1546; Sir John Vanbrugh,
dramatist and architect,
London, 1726; Ludwig van
Beethoven. Vienna. 1827;
Charles Green, balloonist,
London, 1870; Walt Whitman,
essayist and poet. Camden, New
Jersey, 1892; Cecil Rhodes,
Muizenberg, South Africa, 1902;
Sarah Bernhardt, actress, Paris,
1923; David Lloyd George, 1st
Earl Lloyd-Gcorge of Dwyfor,
prime minister 1916-22, Ty
Newydd, 1945; Max Ophuls,
film director, Hamburg, 1957;

Raymond Chandler, La Jolla,
California, 1959; Sr Noel Cow¬
ard, St Mary, Jamaica, 1973.

The first Sunday newspaper.

The British Gazette, was pub-
fished. 1780. The first cremation
in Fngbmd at Woking, 1886.

Such photographs are used as
foe basis for map-making but

contain much more information
than foe map-makers need, such
as individual trees, ground
cover, sub-surface archaeologi¬
cal remains, road markings and
traffic densities. As they become
older, they arc less and less
useful for map-making but
increasingly valuable as records
of a particular era.

Evidence of previous land
use. and of former pits and
craters which have since been
filled in, can be of considerable
help to structural engineers
designing building foundations.

Further information can be
Obtained from Mr Alastair Mac¬
donald, Room N102, Ordnance
Survey. Romsey Road,
Maybush, Southampton S09
4DH. Telephone 0703 792550.

Appointments

Latest appointments include:

Dr Rosemary Wool to be Direc¬
tor of Prison Medical Services in
July, in succession to Dr John
KDgoor.

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KING DICK

(al April FooL rhyming
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place to plate and speaker
to speaker, e^t. also a brick,
a bricklayer, and a boss or
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chest, whence the pktol was
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tbe gun-flint.

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(a) An obsolrie French sil¬
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quart d'ear (he quarter of a
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loose textsie and geotnetri-
cal design, or a machine-
made imitation; torchon
papa is a nwgh absorbent
paper commonly used for
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tbe French verb tarefur to
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■ _ THE TIMES SATURDAY MARCH 25 1989 _

SHOPPING/MARKETING

Contemporary jewellery is
in demand by those who

want to strike an individual
note. Nicole Swengley looks
at some leading designe rs

y- -A sew exhibition of contemporary jewellery,

by 34 leading designer-makers m Britain
S /■' % West Germany, opens next month at
• ^ London’s Craft Council Gallery. Among
the younger exhibitors, Jane Adam works
mainly with anodized aluminium, having evolved her
own special technique for colouring and stipple-
patterning. Gordon Stewart, a recent graduate of the
Royal College of Art, transfers photographic ft ne gr s
on to his large, pictorial brooches, while Maria Wong
makes chunky, witty rings from base metals.

The new interest in contemporary. jewellery is
explained by Adam: “People want a strong colour
theme to brighten a plain wardrobe, yet they also want
something versatile which fan be worn in the day or
the evening." Her pieces range from £16 for a small
: areolar brooch, to. £142. for a .pair of extravagantly
shaped drop ear-rings.

Tim Cohen grapples with traditional, materials to
produce textured, unusual shapes. His sterling silver
serpent ear-rings cost £60; a mermaid brooch,
decorated with semi-precious citrine, costs £88.
Shape; as much as material, seems to be the current
|j criterion for choosing contemporary pieces. Maura
'sHeslop has taken foU -advantage of this with her
. etched, figurative, four-legged beasts in silver, brass
and steeL Even more curious are Mike Abbotfs pieces
7- pastiches of urban developers and estate agents—on
sale next month at OggettL He hi g hli g ht* contem¬
porary concerns in brass badges, which start from
£100 each.

L ouise Slater’s boldly shaped, colourful
jewellery is laser-cut in Formica. Her lates t
collection uses a new semi-transparent
laminate from Italy which looks like frosted
kx. These shieldrshaped pieces have pebbles
.. and stones in ear-rings and brooches, from £15.

W 5 .Rowena Park's snappy acrylic pieces are hand-cut,
” shaped andpblished to produce basic shapes that are
. engraved,ialaid and, painted by hand for decoration.
These are sokf imd&£he “Independent Jewellery" tag,

" with prices ranguijrfrom £6-£24 for a pair of ear-rings
or a bangle. AhkjeJFmlay is another designer-maker
exploring the pofoatial of plastic. .Her boldly designed
ear-rings, brooches and neck-pieces, in screen printed
plastic, are colourful and light to wear. Prices start
from arocmd £11.50 for a pair of ear-rings.

ADDRESSES: Jane Adam, 33 Rushuforth Street
-‘London SE1 (01-620 0376)

Tim Cohen, 50B Kermrnghall Road, London B .

.101-9854660)

yMawa Hestop. Metal Factory, 39-41 North Road,

y LondonN7(01-3411789) .. ,

Oggetti, .101 Jermyn Sheet LondonSWl
-'J01.-930 4694) ' 7 . .

Louise Slater, 235 UpperTficfimond Rpad,"/.

* LondonSWl 5 (01-789 0145)

. Independent Jewefiery by Rowepa Park, Upit 8,; '.

‘ 5 Arundel Road; Brigtaon?SussexfQ273676603) ■■■■

Anne Finlay, TSeteyueTerra^EoRpbqiBll.

■ ^41 ‘•

as brass, figuratively

Double spiral brooch in Formica, at £41.40, by Louise Slater

*

Anne Finley brooch, £1035, and Rowena Park bangle, £1230

Mike Abbott social cartoon badges, from £100, from Oggetti

Brtttoh to July 16« ' 1 -■— ---*- 1

Anodized akmilnlum jewellery by Jane Adam (left to right): on hat broocb-cum-turban ornament £210; brooch, £210; paisley-shaped
' Cmomi Ktonday. AdminkmHm&AfiiatiQnMm^cwr wH'JoUow. brooch, £185;hal brooch, £185; ear-rings, £100 per pair. Model wears: dagger brooch, £150; Persian motif drop eaivrings, £250 per pair

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Stud and drop ear-rings (left) £24, and circular brooch (above
right) £16, both by Jane Adam, and figurative brooch (below
right) £52, from a range by Maura Heslop at Metal Factory

Photographs: (main) Jin Furmanovsky; David Banks. Hat by David
Shilling; hair and make-up by Jacquie Reynolds at Artistic Licence

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LESCHA

T he feet that he chose to cafl^Ms-
Empire The Really UsefoL Groop v \
. tells us all we could possibly needi.
to kpow about Andrew LLoyS^WdAov:
Just imagine the plight of the bom pafty!s'.
switch board operators, repeating
Really (Jsefid Group speak^?: .unfit’
- their fecesburL It is a name whose smug ,
cuteness instantly reveals a minor' public -ri
schoolboy who has foiled to grow uj*;.
One who may have made a lot of monc7 : ,
in a hurry, but who still weairThts hair
over his collar and tisteau . to.. Spike
Milligan tapes.

But as the shattered remnaqts- of the.
third force in British politira^wiU testify,
after months locked in a bater debate
over the. nuances of calling themselves
f Liberals, Democrats, or any permutation
of the two, names ait a deadly serious
business. They are also a highly lucrative
one. Interbrand, one' of the largest of'
Britain's specialized name brokers,
turned over. £4.4 million, last’year on
such projects as. labelling Guinness's .
non-alcoholic lager, Kaliber, calling
Sainsbury’s DIY chain Homebase, and *
giving Austin Rover the Metro, Maestro,.^.
Montego femily. ■.’ y ‘ ■ ?

“There are really fopr* reasons for.
working on an organization’s name,” .
says Simon Paterson,' of ;WoffF Olins,
also big in the identny^busine&s. “There
are the mergers and.; acquisitions — of
which the Liberal Democrat fiasco is a'
textbook example of^how not to do
things; there are the jaew launches; the
companies changing direction; and the
' emergency first-aid projects." .

Classic examples, of ihe. latter include
Townsend Tboreseife decision to re¬
name itselfP &.0 Erpopean Femes after,
the Zeebruggc disastcr. and sinister old
Windscale’s melamorpjaatis into would-
be bright new rustic SeUafiekL
Despite the tight legal controls on

'registration, 'and the ‘computerized
generation of new namesin competitive
areas like driigs,.:coating-^op-withi-a
completely new name-can still be a feirly

baroque experience James Woudhuysra

from Fitch &' COi wbo advised the
- Midland Bank,on.w4iat to call Vector, its
guaranteed overdraft dard, descri^ it as
“brainstorms*" .

“At the "first', meetup, the Midland
people knew that gfviqg a name to a
complicated and difficult-to-explain .

padageoffinandal sauces would make.
it easier to sdL Bw-theft ideas about
what to call it were simplistic: Theywere
talking about the AI Konto, or PDQ- I
suggested we call it The Gorbachev'’,
partly tef dear their minds,” says...
Woudhuysen with a straight face*

• “People will pay extra for something
offbeat or humorous, they like to know
they'arc dealing with ah. organization
that k on the same - hfevdength as
themselves. I wanteda namethatwouJd
sound stylish and sensual, tm* which was _

alro technical, precise aad-eBBcmnL.

“In the end I suggested IndigOiVector, s .
which : covered ..both ends, and they^ s
accepted the Vector bit, althoughnot my

j The right title, can
7 ygprk wonders for

Deyan Sudjic finds

; idea about Launching it with a perfor¬
mance of. 'Mood Indigo’." Midland
claims to be wd] pieced with the
.number of Vector accounts, but are wary
about producing any figures. ,.

- Butlins is much more forthcoming.
“Since we renamed our five sitcsJLn 1986,
buitiness is up 20 per cent in a static
market," r says marketing manager
Trevor Davies. “That means an extra
150,000visitors."

P & O Ferries (top) and BhS.(above):
new mun^'for established companies

Butlins, once the most resonant name
in the British holiday business, was
looking a little faded when the Rank
Organization took over three years, ago.
It sold off the taitiest camps and poured
£170 million into the rest It wasn't so
much the Butlins name itself that was a
problem. Rank wanted to get away from
linking the less-than-glamorous sound of
Skegness and Bognor, and to signal that
something new was-going oil

Not every name change shows instant
results. When Terence Conran took over
British Home Stores, he changed the
name of his own business to Storehouse
and also opted to change the name of the
new acquisition.

“He recognized that British Home.
Stores bad a somewhat dowdy image,
and he felt it was a time for a change,"
ays BhS now. The new company is
simply called BhS, with a band-drawn h,
representing a creative new twist to the
classical type of the B and the S.

Apart from the hardnosed comtaerdal
aspects , of naming, that is also a
psychological dimension involved. Few
Thing s in Hfe are more reyealing.than the
choices we make when naming inani¬
mate objects. To get the real message
from a company name, you need to look

at its subtext What is being hidden tells a
lot more than what is being said.

Small companies try to sound like
large ones. Sclerotic big ones try to sound
nimble and efficient. Dusty old-estab¬
lished organizations have a desperately
predictable way of trying to sound
modish by adopting a mime that might
have been feshionable a decade ago. So
staid old Marriage Guidance Council
' kicked over the traces and mysteriously
renamed itself Relate, taking a great leap
forward into the 1970s.

Names go through the same fluctua¬
tions of fashion as everything else. The
innovators are followed sbeeplEke by the
rest of the field. After IBM, every other
computer company in the world wanted
to call itself by a set of enigmatic initials.
At one time, initials were to bi-tech
companies what sunglasses are to aspir¬
ing rock stars. Then along came Steve
Jobs and the Apple. Now all the aspiring
silicon tsars call their companies after
assorted fruit and veg, under the
impression that it makes them sound
user friendly and creative.

Most of the point of going through a
costly name change is the supposed effect
ft has on the staff and the customers. But
marriage guidance councillors do not
suddenly turn into different people just
because their employer has changed its
name. And the Watford Hilton still does
not have quite the same ring as more
glamorous outposts of the group.

B y adopting all those conspicuously
redundant definite articles and cod
Edwardian long-windedness, pre¬
cisely at the moment that he is hiring tax
planners, lawyers and accountants,
Lloyd Webber is trying to sound as if he
is still running a cosy little business
making chutney on his kitchen table.

Other people are jost as unconsciously
revealing in the way they use names, i
Only a country that combines an
admiration for Rambo with a 55 mile per i
hour national speed limit, like the
United States, would want to drive about
in four-wheel drive pick-up tracks with
the words “Ram" or “Mustang” etched
across the tailgate in 2ft-high letters of
burnished chrome and etched steeL
Only the Japanese could be so
transparently impressed by all things
Western as to make a soft drink with the
brand name Sweat, written in English on
the can, a best seller. As long as they do,
at least one sector of British industry is
safe from the threat of Far Eastern
imports.

According to Naraebreak (dearly a
name which itself took a lot of thinking
over), which specializes in the name
business: "You can call yourself any¬
thing you like, provided yon have
enough money to persuade the world to
take you seriously. If you lave
megabucks to spend on advertising, even
something as superficially absurd' or
meaningless as Wang or Sony will do-
But if yon don't have that sort of money,
a good name does give you an edge."

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Thursday’s closes

US investor
& in talks
f on Mcorp
purchases

A US entrepreneur looks set to
create the laigest banking
group in Texas, in a deal
which involves one of the
biggest bank recapitalizations
on record.

Mr Robert Abboud is be¬
lieved to be negotiating with
US bank regulators to buy part
or all of the 25 subsidiaries of
Mcorp, the struggling Texas
bank group. The acquisition,
added to Mr Abboud's owner¬
ship of First City Bancorp, the
fourth largest bank in Texas,
would give him the state's
leading financial services
group.

The Federal Deposit In¬
surance Corporation is ex¬
pected to pump at least $-
billion (£1.16 billion) into
Mcorp, which lost $903 mil¬
lion last year,to save it from
bankruptcy.

US income up

Personal income in the US
increased in February to
$4,315 billion (£2.508 billion),
a seasonally adjusted 1 per
cent rise from the previous
month's $4,273 billion, the
US Commerce Department
said. The figure included a
large increase in subsidy pay¬
ments to farmers.

Shell contract

Petranas, Malaysia's national
oil company, has signed a
contract with the Royal
Duteh/Shell Group under
which Shell will invest 2
billion ringgit (£425 million)
on exploration of the Baram
Delta offshore oil lield in East
Malaysia.

$173m deal

Breda Constnudoni Ferro-
viarie. the Italian engine
manufacturer, has been awar¬
ded a $173 million (£101
million) contract to supply
140 engines for the under¬
ground railway system in
Washington DC.

330 jobs to go

Trade union officials are to
meet management next week
to discuss the loss of 330 jobs
at two factories in Derbyshire.
Meridian Sportswear, pan of
Counaulds. says ISO jobs will
be lost with the closure of its
plant in Derby, and there will
be 150 redundancies at
Bolsover.

Algerian fraud

APS. the Algerian news
agency, said auditors had un¬
covered several major frauds
in state enterprises. It said a
housing agency in the western
town of Oran had misappro¬
priated building materials
worth 7.5 million dinars
(£588.000). as well as frauds in
several banks.

Olive oil buy

Italians Olii e Risi. pan of the
Fcttuzzi Finanziana group,
has signed a preliminary ac¬
cord to acquire all of
Carapelli. the Italian market
leader in high-quality olive oil
for 43 billion lire <£!S
million).

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SPfiTr

pursue bid

iirrotnfrJiTiFnH

By Graham Searjeant, Financial Editor

Minorco, the mining
investment group led by
Sir Michael Edwardes,

has decided to pursue its Commission.

also been cleared by the Mon¬
opolies and Mergers Commis¬
sion and the European

troubled £3.2 billion offer
for Consolidated Gold
Fields, despite a US ap¬
peal court decision which
will make it difficult to
meet the April 26 dead¬
line for resolving the bid.

The Luxembourg group in¬
tends to defend the US anti¬
trust and securities law cases
brought by ConsGold and its
associate Ncwmont Mining,
in the hope of persuading the
New York District Court to
lift the bar on its acquiring
ConsGold shares in time.

It regards any further appeal
to higher courts as impractical
and has little hope of reaching
an agreed bid. which would
persuade ConsGold to halt the
actions.

Mr Keith Irons, a spokes¬
man for Minorco. admitted
yesterday that the appeal court
decision to uphold the injunc¬
tion against Minorco may
defeat the bid. ”lt is a very
serious setback and could still
block us." he said.

There was some good news
(or Minorco. however. It was
told that the US government
committee on foreign invest¬
ment had no objection to the
bid on national security
grounds under the 1988
Omnibus Trade Act.

ConsGold had contended
that if the South African-
controlled Minorco acquired
its slake in the Australian
Rcnison group, supplies of
zirconium and titanium could
be threatened.

Minorco has now cleared all
official government regulatory
barriers to the takeover. It pas¬
sed US government anti-trust
scrutiny last autumn and has

Minorco said it now intends
“to pursue means of lifting or
modifying the injunction en¬
tered in the US District Court
in New York which currently
prohibits Minorco from pur¬
chasing shares in ConsGold to
take its slake above 30 per
cent."

It will seek to go back to the
court within seven days and
offer undertakings to sell

prospects but at present ac¬
count for less than 1 per cent
of world gold production. ■

On the second ConsGold
legal action, allowed because
the appeal court ruled that the
bid must meet US securities
laws on disclosure, Minorco
said it was still confused about
what extra requirements, if
any, might be needed.

“We have to agree what we
might have failed to produce
what is required under US
securities laws and publish
another document if nec-

ConsGold"s stake in New- essary," Mr Isons.said,
mont. its main US gold-min- ConsGold will press for
ing asset, within a reasonable jnuch more detail about
time, and not exercise man- Miuorco's relationship with

agement control in the
meantime.

It will also contend that
there is no question of the
merger concentrating 30 per
cent of free world gold produc¬
tion under the control of the
De Beers/Anglo American
group, since it has already
undertaken to sell ConsGold
stakes in Gold Fields of South
Africa and Renison to un¬
connected third parties.

Minorco intends to keep
Gold Fields Mining Corpora¬
tion, the wholly-owned US
gold mining interests, which
have important new mining

Sir Michael: bid setback

De Beers/Anglo American
and for more information
about the ramifications of the
South African group.

To meet the bid timetable
under City takeover rules.
Minorco might need to raise
its £ 14-per-share offer (which
has received Uttle support
from shareholders) before the
court cases are resolved.

But after virulent attacks

from Mr Rudolph Agnew, the

chairman of ConsGold, it has
virtually given up hope of
negotiating an agreed bid.

‘T do not think that is some¬
thing we shall be spending
much time on," Mr Irons said.
“We are poles apart on how
we value ConsGold. it would
be rather difficult for us to
reach agreement with them."

Minorco is also unlikely to
seek immediate dispensation
from the City Takeover Panel
to extend the bid timetable,
though it is keeping its options
open in case the court actions
are resolved late in the day.

ConsGold shares plunged
175p to £12.44 on Thursday
after City dealers concluded
the US appeal court decision
was likely to scupper the bid.

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Saying it with flowers: GetafkA Smith, chairman of Cramphora, which makes a ‘substantial’ proportion of sales at Easter

An air of calm over Cramphorn

By Wolfgang Monchau

The Met Office, not the City,
appears best qualified to fore¬
cast profits of Cramphom, the
USM-quoted garden centre
group based in Essex.

While it is true that many
British companies lend to
blame bad weather (or high
interest rales) for poor perfor¬
mance, Cramphorn is indeed
one of the few almost entirely
at the mercy of the winds.

Cramphorn this week an¬
nounced interim pre-tax prof¬
its up from £150,000 to
£ 210,000 for the period to
December 31, against annual
pre-tax figures for the year to
July 2 ofabout £1 million.

profits came in the second half entirely due to the mild win-
last year, mostly in the spring ter, because stock losses.

period from March until June,
and most of those at week¬
ends, particularly bank holi¬
day weekends such as Easter.

which usually occur because
of frost, were kept at a

mi nim um.

Cramphom owns 14 garden

Mr Gerald Smith, a former centres, mostly in out-of-town
director of County NatWest, locations in the South-east,

who three years ago turned
“green" to become chairman
of Cramphom and is a hobby
gardener himself, was unable
to say how much the Easter
weekend amounts to as a
proportion of total sales. But
he admitted it was
“substantial."

The 40 per cent rise in
interim profits came despite a
fall in ales from £7 million to

About 85 per cent of total £ 6.6 million and was almost

which are all open during the
Easter season.

There are plans to sell two
smaller centres this year and
to acquire two larger ones, but.
as Mr Smith admitted, the
expansion prospects are
limited.

It takes about three years to
obtain planning permission
for centres, so acquisitions,
such as the recent £U million
purchase of a centre in

Wokingham, Berkshire, re¬
main the most obvious expan¬
sion strategy.

If profits hit £1.5 million —
which is unlikely this year,
irrespective of the weather —
Cramphom will join the main
market, hopefully within three
years. Mr Smith said.

The interim dividend this
year has been raised from l.5p
to l.65p. Over the past year
the share price has out¬
performed the market, rising
from 300p to 4S0p. trading at
24 times earnings on a historic
basis.

• Weather note: the outlook
in The Times weather forecast
for Easter is “ very windy with
heavy blustery showers.”

ami profit Chicago exchange paves way

Rank in talks on £300m
UK film theme park

From Philip Robinson, Los Angeles

Britain's Rank Organisation
and the Hollywood-based
Universal Studios have held
talks to create a £300 million
Califomian-style theme park
and film studio in England,
within easy reach of the South¬
east

Rank this week committed
$200 million (£115 million) to
buy a half share and play a
major role in plans by MCA.
Ureversal's parent, to re¬
produce its highly successful
Hollywood adventure rides in
Florida.

Senior executives at Rank
and Universal told The Times
that talks over the Florida
project had taken three
months, and future joint deals
would include Europe, i he
liming of the European theme
park would link in with
completion of the Channel
tunnel.

Announcing the Florida
deal this week. Mr Michael
Gifford, chief executive of
Rank, confirmed that a Euro¬
pean theme park film studio
was a possibility. "We look

forward to possibly collaborat¬
ing with MCA in its plans for a
European motion picture
themed studio attraction."

Universal wants to build its
third park on 500 acres in
Europe, and is currently
studying three sites: in Britain,
France and Northern Italy.
The film director Steven
Spielberg is playing a leading
role in creating the new rides.

Mr Charles “Skip" Paul,
vice president of MCA which
also produces television
shows such as Miami Vice,
said: "We are’ most seriously
looking ai an English location.
We talked to Rank for several
months over the Florida
projects, and there are cer¬
tainly ether opportunities for
co-operation. We might well
link up to build a theme park
in Britain. After all. Rank own
Pi new cod and they have an
immense film library. Our
association with them goes
back 50 years.

"The attractions wc put into
the parks will depend on their
location. A decision is likely to

be made later this year. If ft is
Britain, we would want the
emphasis to be on British
films, and if we decide on
Paris, the attractions will be
rather more French."

Arch-rival Wall Disney is
planning to open a theme part
in Paris in 1992, and admits
its location was influenced by
the amount of concessions
offered by the French govern¬
ment. These concessions,
according to highly placed
film industry sources, will not
be available to Universal.

Universal’s plans are a di¬
rect assault on Wall Disney,
master of the thrill and adven¬
ture rides that last year pro-

slumps
to $ 18 . 6 m

By Rodney Hobson

American Medical Interna¬
tional. the US hospital group,
reported sharply lower profits
in the half year to February 28.
The figures were announced
yesterday, a day after it denied
speculation that it would sell
its 65 per cent owned British
subsidiary AMI Healthcare. •
AMI produced net income
of $18.6 million (£ 10.8 mil¬
lion) in the first half compared
with $63.3 million a year
earlier after adjusting for a
change in income tax account¬
ing. Earnings per share were
26 cents against 76 cents.

AMI said the figures were
distorted by the inclusion of a
charge of $13 million from
special malpractice insurance
provisions and one of $11
million in lease buyout costs.
The year-earlier figure bene¬
fited from a $50.7 million
post-tax gain from an account¬
ing change partly offset by a

for 24-hour options trading

Widespread concern among
futures exchanges, triggered
by moves by the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange and Chi¬
cago Board of Trade towards
round-the-dock trading, has
spread io the options'business.

This follows the news that
the Chicago Board Options
Exchange, the biggest in the
world, has agreed in principle
with Reuters and the Cin¬
cinnati Stock Exchange to set
up a worldwide 24-hour elec¬
tronic network for trading
options and their underlying
securities. Mr John Hulk exec-

By Colin Narbrough
utive vice president of Reuters
America, said: “This venture

network win be accessible on
170,000 Reuters video termi-

will speed the process of nals in more than 100 coun¬
providing a true 24-hour elec- tries. It will list all the options

ironic market in world-class
stocks and stock options."

Mr Duke Chapman, the
CBOE chairman, hailed the
the development of the elec¬
tronic network, as “a natural”
for all parties concerned,
reflecting the way Chicago,
birthplace of the modern fu¬
tures and options business,
sees the industry adjusting to
technological change.

The proposed electronic

traded on the CBOE. the
shares traded on the CSE and
9,000 over-the-counter shares.

Traders will be able to enter
buy or sell orders into the
computer system through the
Reuters terminal. Orders will
then be matched by computer
on the basis of time and price.

Other stock and options
exchanges will be invited to
participate in the network for
a fee.

yided almost three-quarters of $ 33.9 million charge from

its profits.

Disney has dominated the
entertainment parks in Or¬
lando. Florida, for almost 20
years. Universal plans a park
eight miles down the road on a
444-acrc site with parking for
5.500 cars, employment for

debt repurchase.

Stripping out these items
still gave lower net income in
the current year, $42.6 million
against $46.5 million. Rev¬
enue was also down, from
$1.51 billion to $1.32 billion.

AMI Healthcare on Thurs-

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Australia at the crossroads could prove a gold mine for British

Waltzing ahead with the Poms

From Colin Campbell
Perth. Western Australia

Australian stock markets in
general — and mining shares
in particular — arc once again
standing at the crossroads, not
Knowing which way to turn.

But as one local investment
adviser say’s: “The Poms love
a punt, and as soon as the
slock market begins to show
some volatility, foreign and
local investors will be back."

Meanwhile, the investment
community is feeling shell¬
shocked by the avalanche of
poor economic news and
spiralling inflation figures,
and in Penh this week they
were suffering additionally
from the collapse of yet
another financial institution.

Last month it was Roth-
wells, the merchant banking
organization, which fell from
grace. leading id colourful
scenes at Perth airport when
Mr Laurie Connell.
Rothwciis' chief executive,
was served with a court order
temporarily preventing him
from leaving Australia. Court

papers were serv ed virtually as
the airliner was waiting to taxi
down the runway bound for
London.

Now Sun Corporation, a
Malaysian-controlled busin¬
ess. and its associated com¬
panies. have had a provisional
liquidator appointed — lead¬
ing to public anger from
private depositors who only
hours before the collapse were
still banking their life savings
in the corporation's coffers.

The backwash from Austra¬
lia’s financial and economic
woes has rubbed off in a
negative way on to the stock
market and on trading vol¬
umes as London and local
investors pause for breath.

The investment hiatus has
also not been helped by ad¬
verse Australian currency
movements and the poor
Australian dollar gold price.

However, the investment
scene is not entirely without
merit and the local commu¬
nity insists - cautiously — that
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French trade gap falls
to surprise £46m

Fans {Renter)—France's modi narrower than expected trade
deficit in February is expected to strengthen securities
markets and the Erase, but there is no sign yet of a
s ign ificantly improving trend overall, economists said.

External trade showed a seasonally adjusted 500 million
franc (£46 mUioo) deficit in February after a Fr2.6 billion
gap in January. Economists had predicted a deficit as wide as
Fr4 billion or Fr5 bUUon. They noted however that the
February gap was narrowed sharply by Fr24 billion of
income for eight Airbus airliners made In Toulouse. This
compared with FrU billion for four Airbuses factored into
the January accounts.

US ruling on Nippon Steel
Aids drug profits ahead

copier giant claims victory m ngm m

Rank Xerox sharpens image

Triton Biosdences, a subsid¬
iary of Shell Oil Co, said the
US Food and Drag Admin¬
istration has designated its
Betaseron an “orphan" drag
for the treatment of Aids.
Betaseron, a trademark for

| wnm hj | n m f human intCT-

feron beta, b a protein that
protects against viral infec¬
tions. Orphan states grants
exclusive marketing rights to
the drag for seven years.

Nippon Steel Corporation,
Japan's largest steel firm,
forecasts a Y60 billion (£267
million) parent net profit in
the year ending March, up
from Y31.88 billion. Its cur¬
rent profit will be about Yl60
billion, unchanged from an
earlier forecast, and op from
Y 62.16 biOion the previous
year. The annual dividend
will be Y5, np Grom Y3 a year
earlier.

Eastern court order

The federal bankruptcy judge overseeing the Eastern Air
Lines case has ordered tiie appointment of an examiner with a
broad mandate to end the strike at the airline quickly and get
all of Eastern’s planes back in the air.

Judge Barton Ufland made it dear he wanted Eastern’s
management and the machinists’ and pilots* unions to resolve
their acrimonious dispute. Doing so would serve the public
interest, be said, because thousands of passengers could then
use tickets now considered worthless. The examiner is to be
appointed in the next few days.

It has taken nine years, hut
Rank Xerox, the copiers to
electronic typewriters group,
claims it is now performing as
well on copier quality, costs
and delivery as its world
competitors, including the
Japanese and other Far East
makers.

Rank Xerox, in which Xe¬
rox Corporation of the United
States has a 51 per cent stake
and Britain’s Rank Organis¬
ation the rest, is the world
leader in producing copiers.
But by 1980, beset by losses in
market share, it estimated its
unit manufacturing costs were
double those of major compet¬
itors in Japan.

Not only that but the qual¬
ity of Rank Xerox products
was lower and the company's
ability to deliver on time was
poorer, Mr Dick Holmes, the
company's manufacturing
director for Europe, admitted.

But Mr Holmes went on:
"Today we are as good as or
better than anyone else in the
industry on most of these
parameters. We have dem¬
onstrated that Japanese com¬
panies are not invincible.**

To judge its own perfor¬
mance Rank Xerox used the
best performance in each area
of operations by any other
competitor as benchmarks.
The main Japanese compet¬
itors include Canon, Ricoh,

Dick Hohnes: confident ...

them increasingly souxemg Finn investigations into
components in other lower- benchmarking at the end of
cost Pacific rim countries such the Seventies, when Rank
as Taiwan and South Korea. Xerox was faced with a declin-
Ranie Xerox estimates it mg market share, showed the
reached parity last October biggest difference was in cost

Makmg progress: tight sensitive equipment in production
First investigations into volume — or medium speed —

benchmarking at the end of copiers. It was able to retain its
the Seventies, when Rank dominance of the high speed
Xerox was faced with a declin- copier market and was able to
ing market share, showed the make an impact in the low

and would have done so
earlier had the competition

of components. Rank Xerox
was paying twice as much for

not gone on improvin g their parts as Japanese competitors.

own performance: The com¬
pany now sees its key task as
maintaining its newly-won
position. Mr Holmes said: "I
am confident we can do that
because of aQ we have learned
during this decade. Anyway

Toshiba and Sharp, some of our customers will insist.*

It meant redesigning copiers
from scratch so there were
fewer pans, less weight, lower
costs and more electronics,
said Mr Holmes. Crucially,
with its new range Rank
Xerox was able to recover in
the key market for medium

speed market.

Redesign reduced the cost
differentials by a thud. Rank
Xerox then attacked procure¬
ment. It cut suppliers from
3.000 to about 300 so quality
control was much improved
and just-in-time delivery tech¬
niques fully developed.

Mr Holmes said: “It
brought a dramatic fall' in

INTERIM RESULTS

HALF YEAR TO 31 JANUARY

1989

1988

Up

Sales

£l,032m

£976m

6%

Profit before tax

£72.4m

£53m

37%

Earnings per share

31.7p

29.6p

7%

Dividend per share

7p

6p

17%

“The increase in our profits has come from organic
growth, acquisitions and the results of our drive for
full international competitiveness in all our chosen
markets. We see improvement continuing in the second
half and the longer-term prospects remain encouraging”

Tony Gill, Chairman and Chief Executive

procurement costs that
brought us to parity on maten-

^RankXerox is still not able
to match Japanese compet¬
itors in lead times and in¬
ventory levels. Mr Holmes
said: “Like roost other Bnnsh
and European multinationals
we source components from
suppliers around the wood
whereas most Japanese com¬
panies have theirs adjacent to
their major plants. We have
had to make up for inis
handi cap elsewhere in our
operations.”

Rank Xerox has ^ con¬
sequently looked at factors
such as manning,, product
quality, cost of overheads and
space utilization. Over nine
years employment levels at
five plants in Europe have
feUen by more than half to
5,200 — achieved without
compulsory redundancies.

Overheads were reduced
from a 360 per cent rating to
137 per cent by last year, a 13
per cent better performance
thqn the doses* competitor
benchmark.

Inventories showed a 65 per
cent improvement to 34 days
of supply. Since 1987 manu¬
facturing output increased
from $650 million to more
than SI billion, producing
substantial productivity gains:

Derek Harris

to Polaroid
a

Polaroid has scored an hn-
portant victory is its effort to
remain inde p e n dent, through
the Delaware Supreme
Chart's refusal to haft fee
company's plans to re.
purchase 22 per cent of its
shares.

Shamrock Holdings, which
has been seeking to acquire
Polaroid, said it would tender
its 6.9 per cent stake in the
instant-photography com¬
pany. Most other investors are

as well, so Shamrock maybe
left with a sizeable stake in the *
company after the Polaroid r

buyback. • =

More shares are likely to be
tendered than Polaroid is
seeking to buy.

Shamrock, an investment
concern based in Burbank,
California, had asked the
court to block Polaroid’s plan,
contending it would pat too
many shares in the h ands of
those friendly to ma n a g e m ent
In Delaware, where Polaroid
is incorporated, a hostile bid¬
der must acquire 85 per cent
of its target 0001311/8 shares to
gain control.

The investment company
said it would have no com¬
ment to make beyond
announcing its plan to tender
the Polaroid shares at the $50 |gr
(£29) a share offered by "
Polaroid. New York Tines

Daiwa teams up with
French in M&A sector

Tokyo (Renter)—Daiwa Secu¬
rities and Caisse National de
Credit Agricole, France’s larg¬
est bank, have agreed a tie-up
in the mergers and acquisi¬
tions sector, an executive from
Daiwa Europe, the wholly-
owned British unit. said.

Daiwa Europe and CNCA’s
investment bank. Union del¬
udes el cflnvestissements,
made the deal, which includes
the exchange of information

on mergers and acquisitions
and other links between Japa¬
nese and French companies.

The move is in line with
Daiwa’s aim to form a net¬
work for merger and acqui¬
sition business in the EEC
Daiwa’s planned M&A com¬
pany in London is expected 10
play a central role in the
network. The company will
also seek a possible link in
M&A in West Germany.

Nikkei sheds 20 points
on Easter profit-taking

Tokyo (Renter) — Share prices
fell after an initial singe, with
most investors sidelined and
some taking heavy profits
ahead of the long Easter
weekend and end-o£year
book closings on March 31.

The Nikkei index shed
20.14 points to dose at
31,568.52, ending the week
45Z49 points down. Turnover
was 650 million shares after

800 million on Thursday.
Most world markets were
dosed for Easter holidays
yesterday and will be shut on
Monday. Japan's remain
open.

• New York (NYT) - On
Thursday, the Dow Jones
industrial average dropped
20.17 points, to £243.04. For
the shortened week, it ended
down 78.21 points.

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Li Ka-shing on the prowl
for purchases outside HK

* MARK PEPPER

By Coiin Narbrongh

Mr Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's
wealthiest entrepreneur, is on
the prow] for investments and
acquisitions in Britain, the
United States and Canada, as
part of a strategy to reduce the
share of his business empire in
the Crown colony.

In one of his rare interviews
with the non-Chinese press, he
told The Times in London this
week that his target was to
reduce his Hong Kong assets
to about 60 per cent of his
total assets. Currently, they
account for some 80 per cent

But Mr Li. credited with
breaking the British hold on
big business in Hong Kong,
has no intention of joining the
people and companies moving
away because of concern over
1997, when the colony is due
to be handed back to China.

Jardine Malheson's Hong¬
kong Land, the colony's big¬
gest property owner, has
decided to relocate to Ber¬
muda on “political-economi¬
cal" grounds. Rising
emigration, especially among
middle management, is also
starling to cause problems for
some companies.

Mr Li, whose giant flagship
company, Cheung Kong, en¬
compasses property, finance
and shipping, said Hong Kong
is a good place for investment
and is likely to stay that way.

At current growth rates, he
foresees the Hong Kong prop¬
erty market, in which his
Hutchison Whampoa group is
a leading player, being able to
maintain present levels.

While confessing to “some
worry" about the world eco¬
nomic picture, Mr Li said the
basic economy of Hong Kong
was “good" Income was
increasing faster than infla¬
tion, and standards were
improving.

He recognized problems in
the labour shortages and

US eases
Soviet
trade curbs

Washington - The Commerce
Department, responding to
pressure from exporters, is to
reduce controls and simplify
licensing procedures for com¬
puters and medical equipment
bound for the Soviet Union.

The changes relax procedur¬
es covering shipment of prod¬
ucts such as advanced person¬
al computers, although notihe
most powerful ones, and com¬
puter-driven blood analysers.

The moves follow com¬
plaints from business that the
US is hurting itself economi¬
cally with restrictions on East-
West trade that are generally
tougher than those of its allies.

Last year's Omnibus Trade
and Competitiveness Act
mandated some of the chang¬
es. including the exemption of
medical equipment from the
controls, provided they met
certain criteria.

In response to the more rel¬
axed Easi-West political at¬
mosphere. there have been ef¬
forts to streamline control
lists, led by the Co-ordinating
Committee on Multilateral
Export Controls (Cocom).

"This revision simplifies
the export control rules and
reflects advances in product
design and business practices
in the computer and medical
equipment areas." said Mr
Michael Zacharia. assistant
secretary of commerce for
export administration.

The moves are in line with
Cocom efforts to focus re¬
straints on higher-technology
prcHlucts and ease them at the
lower end of the spectrum.

“We're delighted to see
them continuing to come out
with improvements." said
Miss Usa Kjuer of the Elec¬
tronic industries .Association.

New York Times

Seeking acquisitions in Britam: Xi Kft-shmg at the Ritz during his vait this week

emigration, but said com¬
panies had their own way of
dealing with these, and his
group was not badly affected.

For the future, irrespective
of political changes, he saw
Hong Kong continuing to
draw success from having the
best natural harbour in the
region, a skilled workforce,
and excellent trading links.
Asked about the lack of

progress on the political struc¬
ture after 1997, Mr Li ob¬
served that talks were
“coining along quite nicely."

“Direct elections may be
one of the best answers. But
we should not be in a hurry,”
he said, noting that Peking's
negotiators have been “very
reasonable."

The billionaire business^
man, aged 60, said he was

unaware of any Chinese gov¬
ernment pressure to put its
people on die boards of Hong
Kong companies, although
companies may see benefits in
Pelting directors. Mr Li, a
native of China's Guangdong
province, says China wants
Hong Kong to remain an
economic success. But he
believes it is important to help
China develop.

Mid Kent Water offer

By Graham Searjeant, Financial Editor

Mid Kent Water, the £80
million statutory water group,
is to give its consumers and
employees the chance to take
up a £7 million cut-price share
offer as part of a pioneering
scheme to convert itself into a
conventional public limited
company.

The shares will be offered at
-325p each, not much more
than half their possible value,
based on the market prices of
existing stocks.

It is part of a scheme,
devised by Brown Shipley, the
merchant bank, that could
raise up to £20 million to help
Mid Kent develop into related
businesses, such as plumbing,
and finance hs plan to remain
independent

The proposals had to be
shelved this month after

Generate des Eaux, the French
water company, raised its
holding of Mid Kent redeem¬
able preference shares to con¬
trol 29.9 per cent of the
company’s votes, and Saur, a
rival French group, built its
holding to 16 per cent

The two French companies,
with others representing more
than 80 per cent of the votes in
Mid Kent have agreed the
scheme, although it could
reduce any long-term prospect
of them gaining control.

“You could say the French
have decided to give manage¬
ment a chance," Mr David
Anslow of Brown Shipley
suggested.

Under the scheme, a new
Pic called Mid Kent Holdings
will offer to convert all five
classes of Mid Kent ordinary

Sea Containers takes
Stena Line to court

By Our City Staff

Mr James Sherwood's Sea
Containers, which only last
week was making encouraging
noises about the 8.17 percent
of its shares acquired by the
Stena Line, has taken legal
action against the Swedish-
owned stakeholder.

In a federal law suit filed in
the United States. Sea Con¬
tainers. which owns Sealink.
the Channel ferry operator, is
taking Stena to court over
alleged technical issues con¬
cerned with a submission to
the US Securities and Ex¬
change Commission.

In contrast to Sea Con¬
tainers' generally welcoming
noises after the surprise Stena
stake was disclosed. Mr Sher¬
wood's Bermuda-based group

now takes the view that
Siena's anions threaten the
option of a bid for the whole
company.

Stena has said it regards the
Sea Container shares as a good
investment, but has also listed
proposals for business com¬
binations with Sea Con¬
tainers, or acquisition of part,
or all, of the group.

A Sea Containers spokes¬
man said the law suit was
intended to bring Lhe Swedes
to account under US market
procedures.

He did not expect the suit to
ruin Sea Containers' long¬
standing good relations with
Stena. Mr Sherwood still plans
discussions with the Swedish
company “fairly soon.”

and perpetual preference
shares, which have recently
traded at about £7 each, into
ordinary shares in the new
company. Hie offer will be on
aone-for-one basis with minor
variations.

The 8.7S preference stock,
redeemable in 1997, which is
mainly in the bands of the
French, will be converted into
a similar redeemable stock.

Those accepting the conver¬
sion offers will also receive
one-for-10 warrants to buy
new stock, and be entitled to
apply for a one-for-five rights
issue for 3.9 million new
shares at 325p each.

The offer of 2L2 million
shares to consumers and
employees will come on top of
this, but will not be
underwritten.

Foreign car
prices to be
cut in Japan

Tokyo (Renter)—Retail prices
for most foreign cars sold in
Japan will be reduced on April
1. when a 6 per cent consump¬
tion tax on cars replaces
higher commodity taxes.

Austin Rover Japan, the
Japanese sales side of Rover
Group, said its price cuts,
excluding the 6 per cent
consumption tax, will range
from 230,000 yen (about
£1,000) on the Rover Sterling
to Y80.000 on the Mini Sprite.

Yanase and Co, a dealer in
foreign cars, said retail prices
will be cut by an average of4.8
per cent for Volkswagen cars,
6.3 per cent for Audis and 5.7
per cent for General Motors.

BMW Japan Corp said its
retail prices, including the
consumption tax, will be cut
by 3.8 to 9.23 per cent.

Rags-to-riches tale of Drexel assistant tainted by perjury

Boesky’s ghost haunts the Street

From Bailey Morris, Washington

Like the uninvited guest at the wedding,
the ghost of han Boesky, the disgraced
arrurageur. continues to haunt Wall
Street - this week Lisa Ann Jones, a
trader's assistant tor Drexel Burnham
Lambert, was found guilty of perjury and
obstruction of justice by a US court.

Boesky is as unforgettable, on his first
anniversary in prison on insider trading
charges, as he was in the "power seat",
oiling the wheels which moved financial
markets.

Jones, aged 26, is one of the small fish
caught in Boesky's ncL But her rags-to-
riches tale is providing riveting copy for
the New York tabloid press.

Her trial, at which she was found guilty
on five counts of perjury and two of
obstruction of justice though she is
bcliexcd to be considering an appeal, was
the first arising from the investigation of
the investment house of Drexel
Burnham. Lambert, as a result of
Rocsky's plea-bargaining disclosures to
the government

Federal prosecutors stumbled across
Jones on lhe trail which would lead them
to Mr Michael Milken, “the junk bond
king" of Wall Street and then Drexel’s
star performer.

Ironically. Jones, who earned almost
S12U.UU0 (£b9.7001 a yea r as a mem ber of
lhe Drexel high-yield bond team, could
spend more lime in jail than either

Boesky or Dennis Levine, another
convicted insider trader, or any of the
others implicated in the investigation.

Meanwhile, lawyers were in another
Manhattan courtroom filing suit against
Boesky. On behalf of a group of
investors, the suit claimed Boesky had
lied about his net worth alter paying
SI00 million in fines to settle the
government's case against him.

Far from being broke, as he claimed.
Boesky had more than S25 million left
after paying the unprecedented fine,
more than enough to keep him in style
after his release from prison in two years'
time, the lawyers said

The suit on behalf of disunited
investors also named as defendants Mr
Milken and Mr Lowell Milken, his
brother, who are targets of another
government case.

Mr Michael Milken was said to be the
reason that Drexel has been unable to
sente its own case by agreeing to the
terms set by US government officials.
Government prosecutors were said to be
demanding that Drexel sever ail ties with
Mr Milken and that the firm was refusing
on grounds that it would lose more
valuable employees and customers who
were loyal to him.

Meanwhile, Jones was being pros¬
ecuted to the fullest extent of die law,
without benefit of the plea-bargaining
arrangements that even Drexel had

pursued by pleading guilty to six felonies
and agreeing to pay fines amounting to
S650 million.

When the government first ap¬
proached her about making a “deal", she
remained loyal to the firm. She was
accused of engaging in stock “parking
deals" while working as an assistant on
the Beveriy Hills “junk bond operation".
According to the court testimony, Jones
denied knowing about “parks” or about
the existence of such trades.

It was easy to see why she was so loyal
— according to the Wall Street Journal ,
Drexel took her from obscurity and a
childhood spent on the wrong side of the
tracks, and continued paying her ex¬
penses and legal fees even after her
indictment on perjury charges.

Small wonder that she turned down
the initial approach of the US attorney's
office to deliver evidence which they
hoped would lead them to Mr Milken.

But unknown to Jones, the govern¬
ment had seized tape recordings contain¬
ing conversations between Drexel and
officials of a small New Jersey firm
known as Princeton-Newpori which was
later convicted of federal securities
violations.

Her voice discussing trades was on one
of the tapes and she was indicted on five
counts of perjury and three counts of
obstruction of justice. She is to be
sentenced in May.

Bass ready to roll as MMC
gets steamed up over the tie

O n Tuesday, those whose mis¬
fortune it was to try to write
sensible comment, within a
matter of bouts, on the
“terrible twins” released on the brew¬
ing industry by the Monopolies and
Mergers Commission, . found the
condnrions hard to understand. More
than 600 pages later, the mist has still

not cleared.

Let me first dispense with the report
into Elders DCL’s bid for Scottish &
. Newcastle Breweries. Nothing i could
find in the report distracted me from
my first impression: if greater com¬
petition is to be established within the
brerring industry, then the market
leader has to be challenged.

Allowing Qrazage to merge with
Scottish & Newcastle might have made
Tfthri Elliott, Aairman of
Eklens, is not a gentle person and would
have fought Bass for every point of
market share. And it would have
happened more in Scotland, where
Baas and S&N each claim 40 per cent of
the market, than elsewhere.

But tbe merger is stopped, and there
is about as much winwngw in examining
the reasoning as there is in wondering
why the cellar slops are doudy.

Tbe thicker of the two reports, not
only in terms of tbe number of pages,
has yet to be accepted by the Govern¬
ment. Lord Young is “minded to
implement” the report info tbe tied-
hoose system, but the Cabinet onght to
dissuade him from it The proposal to
limit the ownership of licensed
premises to 2,000 per brewer is such a
basic and blatant infringement of
p ro pert y rights that no Conservative
government in its right mind shook!
allow it

Imagine the ramifications if the idea
was extended. Perhaps Woohvorths
should not be allowed more than 2,000
shops. Or Barclays Bank more than
Z000 brandies. Banking, after all, is a

DAVID

BREWERTON

vertically integrated business in that
Barclays does not sell the Mi dland 's
personal loans, nor does it acquixejfts
funds from Lloyds. And in b ankin g
there are only four big players, not the
“Big Six” of brewing. For a Govern¬
ment committed to deregulation to
regulate (he basic right of a manufac¬
turer to own his retail outlets is
nonsense.

Let us assume, however, that the
■report is adopted more or less as.
proposed, lhe Monopolies Com-,
mission will achieve, in the short term,
at least one of its objectives, the
protection of the regional brewer. By
the distortion of market forces, the
march of the big brewers will be held
back- The regionals will be able to
enjoy their local monopolies, serving
whatever beer they want in any
standard of premises that their cus¬
tomers will accept, protected from
competition by licensing laws which
prohibit new entrants.

. I can see the romantic attractions of
preserving regional breweries. Local
beers axe one of the few aspects of daily
life which distinguish. South Shields
from Southampton, when all the high
streets have been taken over by Sears
and Burtons and aB the houses are built
to a price by Wimpey. Thai does not
mate.regional beers, or the pubs that
sell them, better. Only local.

The major brewers, which the direc¬
tor-general of the Office of Fair
Trading, Sir Gordon Borne, had in his
sights when he called in the MMC, free
some difficult decisions. Two of the
biggest, Bass and Grand Metropolitan,
are likely to emerge stronger than ever.

According to Tim Clarice, brewing
analyst at Panmuze Gordon, the power
of Bass's brands and its strength of
distribution in thei free trade wllensuic
its continued place as market leader,
while Grand Metfopobtan, with the
best brewery in the London area,
Mort&ke, and a well-crafted retail
position can pick its own rations.

Bass could spin off its brewing
operations which, even without the
2,000 pubs it would be allowed to own,
could be wrath a billion. GrandMet
lacks a lager brand, but as cha irman
.Alien Sheppard commented this week,
potential buyers are queuing up for the
brewing capacity. GrandMet could
then strengthen its grip on the pub
market.

Waiting nervously must be Allied-
Lyons, Bugged by Alan Bond's state
and lacking strength in beta: brands, it is
slap in the front line for Bass's
steam ro ll e r. Byihe lime Bass Brewing
pic has finished with the market even
Bond might be-able to afford to buy
Allied’s breweries.

Greater competition?

At the same time, the dismantling of
the big players in the vertical inte¬
gration game will introduce the whole¬
saler to afer greater percentage of beer
distribution. He win act for a variety of
brewers and win want his percentage,
so where there are generally only two
profit cuts now, at the brewery and in
the pub, there wfll be three.

Win that produce lower prices?

• The report, unlike the report into
Elders/S&N, was not unanimous. Leif
Mills appends a well-argued note of
dissent, which 1 hope Lend Young has
read as closely as the main report.

The final irony, perhaps, is that Paul
Channon was sitting at the Trade
Secretary’s desk when the MMC was
called in, and Leon Brittan may have
the last word from his bunker in
Brussels.

Knight of the long knives

S ir John Hoskyns has never been
afraid of the limelight and, if I
may take a leaf out of the
politicians' book and thor¬
oughly mix my metaphors, indeed a
shrinking violet would have been
hopeless at the helm of the Institute of
Directors. Sir John knows that if he is
to be beard he has to catch the
headlines, and that there are few better
ways of catching the headlines than to
provoke a public row.

Sir John put in his thumb, and pulled
out Lord Plumb, cutting up his loD
membership card in front of Press
cameras. His headlines, twice in two
weeks, were guaranteed.

The problem with this approach is
that while it pushes tbe medium into
the centre stage, tbe message is in
danger of disappearing into the wings.
In all the words written over the past
couple of weeks, few sentences ad¬
dressed the problems to which Sir John
was attempting to draw attention.

Let me quote from this week’s speech
(which, incidentally, he re-iterated in a

telephone call to The Times from
France on his way to a holiday.
Contrary to certain crude attempts at
disinformation, he is not retracting one
word):

“We believe that; on present indica¬
tions, 1992 is going to foil, Ira three
reasons. First, insufficient progress is
being made on tire realty difficult
measures needed to remove internal

frontiers".

Can lord Plumb really disagree with
that assessment? While ervery member
state is happy to play lip service to the
1992 ideal, there are so many cultural
gaps to be leaped and ingrained
altitudes to be challenged that they will
take a generation to overcome.

“Second, a great deal of political
energy and administrative time is being
wasted in drafting vagae proposals
about European monetary union and
trans-European social policies which,
even if they*re workable and desirable,
are not prerequisites for die single
market”.

Sir John could have added that In

this country we speak with many voices
on the matters of monetary union and a
European central bank. The National
Westminster Bank, for instance, fore¬
cast this week that by 1992 we would be
in the EMS. The Government is non¬
committal, if not uncommitted.

“Third, we believe tint the machin¬
ery of the commission and its institu¬
tions is organizationally and man-
agerially inadequate for tbe task faring
them”.

It is.

Sir John is not unaccustomed to
rattling the cage in which some believe
leadership of the loD should imprison
him. He was once close to Downing
Street and is still on more than nodding
terms with senior members of the
Cabinet. While he is not in any sense a
ventriloquist’s dummy on the matron’s
knee, his message is one that the
Government is happy to be spread.

Especially if he, rather than Lord
Young, taka the flak generated by the
more ear-catching anecdotes.

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20 MONKV

THE TIMES SATURDAY MARCH 25 1989

FAMILY MONEY

Edited by Vivien Goldsmith

C BRIEFINGS

■ Mr Stephen Edell.the
BulkJJng Societies Ombudsman,
says he has been tow by his
legal advisers that he las no power
to act on most of the 50
complaints he has received about
the Abbey National's planned
flotation. He adds that he has been
told that even where a
complaint is within his jurisdiction
he will not be able to order the
Abbey to change Its proposals. The
most he can do wffl be to order
compensation. Mr EdeH says he Is
now awaiting a written opinion
from his legal advisers and will
consider individual complaints
when he has received it

■ National Savings has
reminded holders of the 27th issue
of National Savings Certificates,
which begin maturing from April 5,
that they wiU be eligible for the
general extension rate of Interest,
which is currently 5.01 per cent,
tax free. Interest Is applied on
three-monthly terms. The
current general extension rate Is
not competitive with the general
level of rates in the market mainly
because National Savings is
hying to discourage short-term
investment Holders of maturing
27th issue Certificates can reinvest
up to £10,000 in the 34th issue,
which is offerings guaranteed tax
free return of 7.5 per cent over
five years.

to France probably think
taking out insurance. But the
AA now offers 24-hour cover
against medical costs and
repatriation, in case of an accident,
or a car breakdown, from Its
port offices. Motorists pay £9.50,
or £8.50 if they are AA
members, to cover the car and
passengers. Foot passengers
pay 95p each.

■ Chase de Vera has fixed rate
mortgages at 12.85 per cent, but 5
per cent of the repayments are
deterred for loans up to 67.5 per
cent of the property value and 3
per cent deferred for advances up
to 70 per cent If the loan hits 95
per cent of the valuation, then there
is no interest rate deferment

The Mortgage Corporation has
variable rate loans at 12.5 per
cent with 3 per cent deferred for
three years. Citibank has a rate
of 11.99 per cent fixed for five
years.

■ Holders of the Barclays
Premier Card, the bank's gold Visa
card, now have access to a
range of up-market sporting and
cultural events. Called the
Barclays Premier Classe, the 1989
programme includes days at
Ascot, Henley, Wimbledon and
Cowes. Prices range from £155

to £655 per person.

■ Customs & Excise has joined
the plastic revolution. From April 3,
passengers at Gatwick Airport
will be able to use Visa and
Mastercard credit cards to pay
any duty owing on goods brought
into the country. Manchester
Airport will introduce the service
from early May.

Questions

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6 Unitholders
ire at all times
guaranteed
their share of
the value J

Tim Miller

Competition is fierce between unit and investment trusts.
Tim Miller of M&G argues for unit trusts. Phillip Chappell,
of the Association of Investment Trusts, stands his ground

TIM MILLER

A part from the exemp¬
tion from capita] gains
tax on their internal
transactions, unit trusts
and investment trusts
-have little in common. Unit trusts
are collective investments in
which the underlying shares are
held in trust for the benefit of the
unitholders, who are at aD times
guaranteed their share of the
underlying value. Investment
trusts are companies whose shares
fluctuate according to then-
popularity.

Unit trust management is in¬
expensive. The cost of buying,
holding and selling a unit trust is
the annual charge of around I per
cent, plus the spread between bid
and offer prices of around 6 per
cent This includes the initial
charge and all other costs, includ¬
ing commission. The effective cost
of buying, selling and holding an
investment trust share is the
spread between bid and offer
prices, plus stockbroker's com¬
mission on buying the shares, plus
stamp duty, plus stockbroker’s
commission on selling the shares,
and plus an annual management
charge.

Two questions on investment
trusts:

1 Since the realization price of
investment trust shares is decided
by supply and demand, on the
stock market and not by reference
to the value of the underlying
investments, how can a share¬
holder be sure that he gets the foil
benefit of any rising values?

2 What would be the typical total
cost of buying £1,000 worth of
shares in an investment trust,
holding them for a year, and then
selling them, assuming that the
quoted price was unchanged?

PHILLIP CHAPPELL

I T stands for investment
trusts, as every wise investor
knows, And .the argument for
preferring investment trusts
to unit trusts lies in one word
—performance. A sum ofThe Rule
of Seven, Six, Five is easy to

remember: £100 invested in the
average investment trust 10 years
ago would have grown to up £700,
to £600in the All-Share Index, but
just £500 in the average unit trust.
In a building society, £100 would
have grown to less than £250.

Of coarse, the past may be no
guide to the future and equities can
go down as well as up. But past
relative performance must be
some guide. Investors looking to
balance their risks and rewards
need not look beyond the best
performer

Unit trusts charge front-end fees
of 6 per cent and annual manage¬
ment charges of up to 1.5 per cent.
By contrast, total entry /exit
charges for investment trust lump
sum savings schemes can be less
than 2 per cent, and annual
management below 0.5 per cent.
You do not need a calculator to
realize that over ten years the
identical portfolio in an invest¬
ment trust must outperform its
competitor by 15 per cent
Higher costs have loaded the
dice against unit trusts.

Investors become real
shareholders in investment trusts,
with accounts, annua] meetings,
independent directors, and the
Stock Exchange as overseer. Share¬
holder capitalism and unit trusts
do not mix.

Warrants, splits or convertibles
offer opportunities through invest¬
ment trusts for tax p lanning ,
school fee or mortgage arrange¬
ments. Unit trusts offer “plain
vanilla” — with no choice.

Where else can you get £100 of
marketable assets for £85? As new
investors buy investment trusts,
the discount narrows — halving
over the past 10 years — and the
benefit comes to those on the
bandwagon. Unit trusts selling just
at asset value cannot offer this
double opportunity.

The closed-end basis, less port¬
folio churning, (lower costs to the
investor), gearing, better informa¬
tion, higher yield (I per cent higher
on average) and marketability
(remember October 1987)—are ail
good arguments.

•We often hear about City ex¬
perts buying investment trusts for
themselves, but putting their cli¬
ents into unit trusts; I wonder

why? Make sure your adviser gives
you the chance to eryoy IT.

Two questions oa unit trusts:

1 How can anyone giving best
advice recommend investments
which consistently underperform?
7 Should we not get together to
warn investors about the even

. higher costs of insuraxicc-based
savings products and the riskiness
of investment in building societies
(no inflation protection)?

Tim Miller replies:

X No one giving best advice could
recommend an investment which
was likely to show worse than
average performance in the future.
But anyone giving best advice
should think twice about
recommending an investment
simply because its unpopularity,
measured in this case by the
■ narrowing of the average invest¬
ment trust discount, had decreased
over the last 10 years. What
matters is the next 10 years. To
base advice for this on a specula¬
tion that the investment trust
discount will continue to narrow
for ever and ever may be a bit
optimistic.

2 Everyone involved in equity
investment should join in singing
its praises. Unit trusts are of course
the stars, but unit-linked policies,
investment trusts, with-profits
endowment policies and direct
investment in shares themselves

are all ways of bringing the growth.

that only equities can achieve.
Phillip Chappell replies:

1 Investment trusts have so many
plus points that they ought to trade
at a premium to asset value — only
when that happens could Tim
Miller's question be relevant. Un¬
til then, we recognize that the
share prices reflects a combination
of underlying asset value and
marketability. Over the past ten
years the discount has been foiling
so that shareholders get a double
opportunity for added value.

2 Taking a market-maker's spread
of 1 percent, stamp duty of 0.5 per
cent, and commission costs
(through a lump sum savings
scheme) of 0.2 per cent (plus VAT)
for botii buying and selling, the
combined cost of buying and
selling £1,000 worth of investment
trust shares could Id be as low as
£19.60.

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CMJPwi Caw Cap 1489 1566

CWLiPniCaari liw 1784 t67B
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CMUPvicaty i.-w Cl I 27 1187
CMJPeniF.<d Cap 2457 2587
CMLJRomri.fi m, 394 4 3799
GMURmunci Coa IM.1 1622
CMljPaniima in* 184 6 1943
CMuRnroMan Cap 4163 *39B
CMUPwi Men in. 493.4 525.7

COMMERCIAL UNION
SI "w 5 1 uncennA. EC3
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Prana- Alaiuged
Pr»na- UN EquAy
Prm*. m Egiwy
Prune- Prcoartv
Piwte-FuuBdwnmasi 154 j 1730
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01^42 0262

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PIP FurW

7619 8020
Cl MS IIJ4
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LAs FuM hr Accun 235 9 StSJ
um E-awv Acnan *jkg 511.1
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LHelny TruHAenm +n#0 3742
LM W1 Accun 357 0 375.7
LM Hwjf> me AC4vm S'575 542 6
Lie Prooedy Aoaun 33£S 7*4.7

Cnm" flw Inv A 6538 7105
Snm Eguev 7646 BC91
MS Managed KU 6 232.4
Grown Acoon 297.1 3fZ7

OtUSAOCn INSURANCE
H*^^Suroy flHS 89L

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688 936
1076 1112
1824 3025
1456 1540
1090 1156
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CdGwrOWerm few 8417 330.7
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North Amartcn Raw 2083 7XA

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Managed Fuw

Dapawl RaW

3745 3850
3*45 3846
1546 1636
184.9 1736
2396 2486
118.1 1247
1302 1375

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587 8 6185
3895 4106
2766 290.5
1235 1303
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211.0 2221
3735 3935
228.7 2407
3101 3244
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Mwn ia ao nal Fuw 3074 3235
War FUW 206+ 2163

Capua Fuw 3084 3226
Income Fuw 430 8 4536

JYoperty Series 'A' 380J 4004
ncpenyUnn 8541 8846
FWanoa FUW 301.4 3176
Managed Sums 'A' 384.7 3834

LONiuwoBnaaniP
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0392 52155

fmr Trow cap 4535

Do Accun 594JJ

Prcpany cap 1647

Ck> Acoan 2175

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912 961
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1051 110 7

1933 1930
I486 1564
117.1 1236
1355 142.7

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feweeeo Sec* Fund 1269 1336
Eunpatn FUW 4161 4360
NBM4I Res FuW 1987 207.1
Fw East FuW 428 7 4516
gma aw Co s FUW 4445+87 6
Special Sue Fund 3*+3 3825
Men CUrency Fund 1831 1925
Jraonesa Tocfl 198.7 2092
US Smaaar Co * 929 975

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1192 306fl
32S5 3+43
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Amer Snar Co Band 9M B95 -66

Alabama Bono 1+Z9 1541 -27

CornnuMy Bond 181.8 1914 -+A

Deposit Bond ACC 2*65 2590 +44

Equity Bond Accun 80+0 9+93 -67

Eurapear Bond acc 1869 2049 -16

Extra YW Bd Accun 4677 4915 -4.7

Far East Bd Accun 1547 182.7 -26

<M Bond Accun Z776 2316 -05

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MOM ASSURANCE

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Do Accun 2625 2784

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Do Accun M79 2816

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ftofc Bom Fund 267 8 3BJ.0
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UK Eatfy 1950 2052

P™*0 int 1273 1339

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2623 2761
1966 2090
79T9 8336
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3*5 1 3634
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2365 2512
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2905 3C59
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1173 1235
139 8 1472
2102 221.3
2+82 2624

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3235

261.1

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3325

3177

1195

2830

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Managed Bern
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493 8 5501
3168 2303
4257 4486
1683 1773
3019 9161

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CUARDMN ROYAL EXCHANGE
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6565 6932
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take advantage of
end of the tax year
overnight transactions

Save & Prosper, the unit trust
group, has had to hastily re¬
work a special offer it was
making to investors for bed
and breakfast transactions,
because it appeared to infringe
Inland Revenue rules on this
type of deal.

Bed and breakfasting is the
term used to describe share or
unit trust transactions set up
specifically to produce a gain
or loss which can be used
either to take advantage of an
unused capital gains tax al¬
lowance — £5.000 in 198S/89
and 1989/90 — or to reduce a
capital gains tax liability.

At the same time, a new
base line is created for assess¬
ing future gains.

The Inland Revenue re¬
quires that such transactions
are real transactions, not arti¬
ficial ones effected only in
theory. The sale and re¬
purchase must be made on
different days.

“An inspector wouid want
to know that this was an
ordinary transaction, at nor¬
mal open market prices and
that the shares were genuinely
relinquished and were ex¬
posed to market movements
overnight." said a spokesman
for the Revenue.

“There should not be any
actual or implied agreement
for the client to buy the shares
beck." he added.

Save & Prosper had an¬
nounced that under its special
terms for bed & breakfast
deals, investors could re¬
purchase their units the morn¬
ing after selling them, at the
previous day’s offer price.

“Save & Prosper believes
that this arrangement creates a
simple and cost-effective way
for investors to realize capital
gains or losses without incur¬
ring any investment risk on
the transaction," said the

company in its
announcement.

Mr Ken Emery, the market¬
ing and development manager
at Save & Prosper, said this
week that after sending out the
information, the company
reconsidered the offer to pro¬
vide a service which elimi¬
nated risk.

Save & Prosper thenrealized
that this was something that
the Inland Revenue might
take issue with and decided to
change the terms so that
investors would be buying
back their units at the prevail¬
ing day's offer price.

In many cases, said Mr
Emery, there would be no
change from the previous
day's price but the Inland
Revenue would want to see
that there had been a real risk.

About 20 deals had been
done under the terms orig¬
inally set out by Save &
Prosper, and the company
would be writing to these
investors offering them the
chance to re-run their deals

with no transaction charges.

Save & Proper's slip-up is a
timely reminder to anyone
contemplating a bed and
breakfast deal before the end
of the tax year on April 5, that
this is a concession not to be
taken lightly and that in order
to crystalize a gain, you must
expose yourself 1 to some risk.

Indeed the Stock Exchange
has recently written to mem¬
ber firms reminding them that
all bed and breakfast deals
ought to be genuine trans¬
actions.

A spokesman for the Ex¬
change explained: “There
should be no sleight of hand
involved."

Neither the Stock Exchange
spokesman nor the Inland
Revenue spokesman believed
that discounts on bed and
breakfast deals — which are
commonplace among stock¬
brokers and some unit trust
companies — were necessarily
risky.

What mattered was the
nature of the deal and whether

there had been a genuine sale
and repurchase.

Mr George Bull, a director
of the tax consultancy depart¬
ment at Neville Russell, the
accountant, reinforced the
warning from the Inland
Rvenue:

“You must make a real
transaction. So inevitably,
there is a risk involved. If
there is a move between the
sale price and the purchase
price, inevitably you are ex¬
posed to that.”

“From time to time the
Inland Revenue will pick a
situation where someone has
done a bed and breakfast deal
and it will look into it to check
the circumstances."

Mr John Hodgson, the se¬
nior manager in the tax
department at Coopers &
Lybrand, the accountant,
added:

“As long as it is a real
transaction it will be difficult
for the Inland Revenue to
argue with it

“At some point or another
the client should lose owner¬
ship of the shares. Simply
selling to a nominee who
intends to hold the shares
overnight is not sufficient”

One stockbroker said he
believed there were a number
of potentially risky areas in
setting up bed and breakfast
deals.

For example, there might be
circumstances where a mar¬
ket-maker might not take on a
tranche of shares unless he
was told that they were being
repurchased the next morning.

This might be the case
where there was a large block
of shares in a lightly traded
stock.

There must be some doubt
about whether the Inland
Revenue would accept such
an arrangement, said this
broker.

Mr Bull said: “Anything
which detracts from the no¬
tion of fUll overnight risk is
undesirable.

“The ultra cautious view is
Lhat you should probably use a
different broker to buy and
sell, especially if you are
dealing in a regularly traded
stock.”

Clowes
payout
‘in the
summer’

Investors in the UK arm of
Barlow Clowes can look for,
ward to further refunds in the
summer, says Mr Michael
Jordon, Joint liquidator fa
Barlow Clowes Gilt Managers,
the UK business, and fa

Gibraltar-based Bail ow
Clowes International.

A four-day hearing is set to
start on May 2 in the High
Court in London to examine
claims over funds held by fa
two arms of Mr Peter Clowes 1
collapsed empire. Each of fa
two branches has claims
against funds held by the
other, and the extent of fa
claims will affect the amount
of money available.

Mr Jordon said the court
would also be looking at fa
rights of investors within fa
various funds operated by
BCGM, and whether some
investors should receive more
money than others.

Provided these issues were
resolved he expected a pay¬
ment to be made towards fa
end of May. However, it was
not yet possible to say bow
much investors would receive.

Mr Antony Gold of Alexan¬
der Taiham, solicitors acting
for Clowes investors, said he
was also confident of second
payments to BCGM investors.
A thousand investors, whose
money was channelled
through Lloyds Bank, got
three-quarters of their money
back before Christmas. Be¬
tween 5,000 and 6,000 inves¬
tors, whose money went
through Midland Bank, re¬
ceived a quarter of their
money at the end of January.

These were interim
payments.

Slightly more than 1,000 of
the 11,000 BCI investors put
money into the operation in
its last months and they may
have a right to a full refund.
The Court will be asked to
decide on this on May 22.

Miss Elizabeth Gloster,
representing BCI and its
receivers, told the High Court
in London this week that BCI
investors could look forward
to some son of limited interim
payout in the summer.

MS

A loan in the Strand

The pub with no beer may be
a myth, but the bank with no
cash has really arrived.

Barclays has opened a
Financial Services Centre in
the Strand, London, where
customers can deal in shares,
buy unit trusts, negotiate a
loan, obtain advice about
insurance or tax — but cannot
cash a cheque.

“We have kept cash away
from this particular outlet.”
says manager Mr Adrian
Burning, who also manages
an adjacent branch, where
cash can be found. On differ-

By Vivien Goldsmith

ent days callers will find tax¬
ation and investment experts
on hand from 830am to 6pm.

And the new thinking
about banking does not end
with the services offered. The
design of the branch itself
breaks away from con¬
ventional marbled-hall bank
gravitas with a vengence.

On the threshold there is
some fool's gold let into the
green slate, flooring and in¬
side a brutal broken glass
panel engraved with pound
signs shatters the wood and
chrome calm.

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The majority of the fund will be invested in
established businesses.

If you would like to receive further details

telephone Anne Bamford on 01-224 3929.

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Dividend Growth 18% p.a. over 5 years

■ Final dividend increased by 34.1%and total foryear by 12.7%.

■ Net asset value up 14.6% over year.

■ U.K. equities 5396, USA 32%, Elsewhere 12%, Cash 3%.

■ SAVINGS SCHEME provides cheap, simple and confidential
method of investing lump sums, gifts, regular savings and
dividends.

■ PERSONAL EQUITY PLAN: 1989 Plan still open. Arrange¬
ments to take advantage of Budget changes for future years
are in hand.

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1 For further information and □ copy of the Report and Accounts, please return i&. ^

I n* Secretary, The Alliance Trust PIC, Meadow House, 64 Reform Street, £ I

Dundee DDi 1TJ - 1

I NAME_ !

eventually demolished — by law

Furi

Conflict has arisen over the
interpretation of Spain’s latest
Ley de Costas — Law' of
Coastal Areas — which came
into effect in My 1988.„ • •

According to Mr Edward
MacMillan-Soott, the Conser¬
vative Member of the Euro
pean Parliament for York,
literal interpretation ofthe law
means that wholesale demo¬
lition of properties situated
within a 100 metre (110 yard)'
zone bade from the shoreline ;
could occur in 30 years — the
limit the Government has set
—and indeed some properties,
particularly along the Costa
Blanca and on Tenerife, have.
already been earmarked.

The Spanish government
has been quick to deny this
and indeed, in an official
statement, confirmed that any
building which had obtained
proper planning permission,
and which is property reg¬
istered with die local notary, is
absolutely safe.

The problem is with the
illegally constructed edifices
which litter much of the
Spanish shoreline and in
which many homeowners —
Spanish, British, and other
nationalities — do not hold an
escritura (title deed). Here the
Ley de Costas 1988 can be
implemented, bat this will
take time before any wholesale
demolition can take place. ‘

In the meantime; some
homeowners are obviously
concerned by the effect this
wifi have on the prices of their
properties — particularly those
ap artment blocks which have,
already been earmarked for
possible demolition. Still, this
cannot happen for 30 years —
during which tim e new laws-'
can be brought in and govern¬
ments change.

Sen or Julio Prado, a lawyer

and member of the Madrid
Bar Association, says: “Since
the 1960s tourism and holiday
home ownership have prob¬
ably been two of Spain's
largest sources of income, and
have been the solution to the
country's balance of
payments.

“Last year, 54 millio n vis¬
itors spent £9.4 biDian in
Spain audit is obvious that
the Spanish government
would not take any action so
detrimental to the Spanish
economy. The government
states quite definitely that all
buildings wifi be.left alone as
long as they have the nec¬
essary building permission.”

The affair highlights the real
need for all purchasers to seek
independent legal advice be¬
fore a commitment to bay is
made.

* Many agents play down this
necessity, in case it spoils a
sale, bat professional advice is
absolutely essential in check¬
ing that all planning per¬
missions have been granted,
that, the developer actually
owns the land concerned, and
that when the property is paid
for it is completely mortgage-
free.

Mr Charles Hutchinson of
Hamptons, the estate agent,
says, his company insists that
all its potential buyers consult
a solicitor. He also says that
the new law forbidding any
construction at all within 100
metres zone is now' in opera¬
tion, although the Spanish
government Iras given a spe¬
cial dispensation for marina
schemes.

In this case, Mr Hutchinson
says, the Spanish government
retains ownership and grants a
lease — usually for 30.years —
so enabling an owner to obtain
his escritura.

How co-operative
v is your bank?

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would vou get it?

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forgiven lor thinking that equity investment u totally dominated

by London°repreMnts just 8% of the global.

all produced good, and in some cases outstanding, growth over

the ^independent, unbiasedprofeHiotulselection

and constant attention 1 to your investment portfolio has never-. .

* 5CCn 8 Prter Potts and Corinne Carter who founded Saracen ip
1985 have, between'them, more than thirty years unit trust

Saracens, couvicu «iui a ----_

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Top performing fund in its sector

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Fund Management by

Money & Family Wealth' Fund Manager of the year

(Money & Family Wealth December 1988)

A strong combination for low risk investment in 1989

^□ya! 7:us’ H^h Yield Lir.it Trusi has already proved to
fca an cutstard-rg; r. jcirmen: over betn (tv? (ong and sherr

term. Ranged No. i m :ts sector ever the 12 months to ^arch

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offer to bid. net irtrcme reinvested}. The Fend sis-o has a
consisrer.t tracK record ct good long tern gams gang Dae*
c-var tr ary years.

INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES Tneaim Furd us
prthnda a high level of income. fwh»ch can be reinvested lor
cas-tai growth) by investing in high y&Ciry eguines and

interest secunhes. These can De found in a v.*3e range cl
sectors and mc'yde a ’arge rcrr.s^r of re c -73 1 f ced
interest preference shares a *-j . :<s: c‘ hc .c -.gsmav De found
:n the Managers’ Reccrt vnh'Cfi 'f av^'-ac's tn *?gaes:.

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per rtanrh/.

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TRUST HIGH YIELD FUNS. C? h i - the cc.5?" f j*. deta.is
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; Performance Statistics - Ail figures show the value o’ ZiQ3 invested ever the Given ce'os.

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d 1 lie rent onipjnicN but there •? a iong-
esaoltshe-J riKrthvJ winch «n help s.,u om
InwitSHdir i:U'?s are public c^mpanxs

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•'mt of The Thn.-j3Bv iR\j:t Ttusi. V-/ */ j

Ik:* ::ip‘-r_irrt man investment tnx means your money
t> ltv-'-'tcd in .1 Liree numher o’ b-iluipy. thereby
sprcidira the 7>k.

Hut remember, the pnee«>!’ shares and die income

frtHU them can go down as well as up and you
may not get back the amount invested.

A simple way to invest in The Throgmorton
Trust is through our Savings Scheme This avoids
the usual red tape involved in buying shares and
because there are NO DEALING CHARGES, more
of your money goes into >our investment.

Investing regularly through our Savings
Scheme has the added advantage of sparing you
the critical decision of when to buy the shares
and you can invest as little as £25 per month.

Alternatively you can pay-in lump
sums of £250 or mote whenever
you like. Either way, you can be
sitting pretty...

Find out mote by filling in the coupon and returning it to;

THE THROGMORTON TRUST
SAVINGS SCHEME

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Celebrate a happy new
tax year this April 6

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‘ * 4 - v;

Tony Forem an
offers some
pointed advice
on tax-saving

This may be your last chance
to save tax before the start of
the new tax year on April 6.
Work through this checklist to
see what action yon should
take.

Nominating yoor main
residence;

If you have two homes you
must nominate one as your
main residence for CGT pur¬
poses within two tax years. If
you do not, you lose the right
to choose and the Inland
Revenue may decide for you.
Wife's earnings election;

If your combined income for
1987-88 amounted to £26.870
it may be beneficial to elect for
the wife's earnings to be taxed
separately. A formal election
needs to be made by April 5
1989.

Bes investments:

You can make a deduction
against your 1988-89 income
if the shares are issued by
April S, subject to £5,000 that
you may be able to carty hack
from 1989-90.

Unused pension relief:

If you were self-employed or
had non-pensionable earnings
for 1987-88, you may be able
to make a pension contribu¬
tion and cany it back. Tbo
contribution will normally
have to be made by April 5.
Contracting out of Serps:

The Government is encourag¬
ing people to opt out of the

yoo realise Fki*
tnij main residence?

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ILCOOnvesefl *i Income units dt itieljunitiolMSC [>«JendfuiWon 6lhMay.]964.
eomovea wimasnMr tfivestmem m j eiaenr

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MAG

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£XOOO

£1.000

1365

£40

£38

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ix>oo

1370

46

49

3L076

3.000

1375

83

72

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1.000

1380

166

103

2.428

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1385

228

87

6616

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22 MAR *89

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1,000

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31 DECEMBER

1970

1975

1980

1985

22 MAR *89

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2/540

10256

27.080

67,880

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£U000

£1.000

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3.132

2.623

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3.054

3.962

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' TRAVEL: PYRENEAN HIGH LIFE
COOK: FISH DISHES
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Norfolk wherries were the main form of cargo transport in BrofUand for two centnrks and they epitomize the dear water and tan sails of the old Arthur Ransome idyll

A warm wind Iromyjhe
/u south-west aacfcr'life
ZJ into th&safl of^^^oF-
y -M. folk wherry OUve^ rat¬
tling die' wooden blocks
on deck and rendmg.ffmhea^'
boat skimming down die River;
Bure. At the end of a quiet, iiedy ’
reach, the curiy hatf-timheringand;
Wendy-house thatch afWraxhant
comcsinto view, and I notice with
lofty disdain that one of die mm
suburban lawns even has aJtiqtfke
plastic heron instead of a gnoin'e.

But, disturbed by the shjsoowof
the Olive's sad, the hemn>4h^es
its leg and turns a crested gcadto
glare bade at us. Peter Bowa^'the

ft,*:!

;;|n It he Norfolk
Broads, says

~TT

___—in the reversibility

skipper, roars with laughter-at^my of^udi.:a T( 20th-century disaster,
surprise. “Td say it’s, YfttS^dnrigs were happening:

herons that are the rabr specres ^ firaC^pc rais tc n t ‘and influential
here. The real ones are, jfflTpmtu i fobfr^ntiwimprovement of the

The moment lay at the hrart-.bf"
any experience of Ac No’" "
Broads: a Mend -of ancient
modem, natural and contrive .
odd reality and damning precon¬
ceptions. V - • --v’-vsV.

About 12 years ago, word began
to get about that the Norfolk
Broads had been finally .ruined;
polluted, overcrowded, overdevel¬
oped and vulgarized. The ghetto-
blasters blared, tin cans-littered
the reed-beds, and the marsh
harriers and otters had .fled.
Sewage and chemicals had. been
flowing unchecked into the quiet
taVes formed by medieval peat-
diggings, and through the 125
meanderi ng miles of the rivers
Bure, Yare and Waveney.'

Farmers bad assiduously
drained the ancient.-.giazing-
marshes to produce agricultural
land, and the native wildfowl and
waterborne life ofi tois fragile
region had gradually -.been, de¬
graded in a classic pattern of
ecological impoverishment -

Soon therewould be only atew
fat and rommonplaeeducks left to
scrounge crusts from'the crowds of
trippers.

The boat-hire companies corn
turned an increasingly frantic
overselling of the'Broads. In the
words of one, now remorseful,
hirer. “In the Seventies we ad¬
vertised it as a sort of cut-price

Costa or a waterborne pub-crawL I

think we. even fried'to persuade
them there was nightlife in Hom¬
ing." Irredeemably hideous
motorboats swul^d fir too fist
along the’ quiet rivers, their wash 1
cr umbling tbji fragile shanks: -the
water, once .aqaraiid gxakling
and fronded^wjth^ wrter-plint^
became ij y tiaifc thickand

soupy.- AfeKf.rihri^Ug-^: Pbo*-
yrus frwqar mjo -mtrale

.rdpBsd^S?

thing else.-'..-•• .. ‘"t •-

This was the image of-too
degraded Broads and much of a
was accurate. QkJcr’jjeopfej
remembering toeclear water md
tan nilt of 1 toe dd '-Ajtto'

Kansome' idyll, -were ffd tfcn fito
younger ones shruggedand looked
elsewhere for wfldemesses. Few

second, a slump in the
hirc^njaf trade J— a 20 per cent
dxt^jn, bookings .“iniere was a
year when toe rate-allseemed to
sfr m* the yards all summer,” says
Peter Bower v . of,, Wroxham. “I
redcbn.toe trade began to see tore
people ift n juregorag off die

ptooeJ'.'f.-. i - i .; ^ .

Th^.tc«ether with toe increas¬
ing outrage of. naturalists as rare
birai^ and-wplahts jj^st ground,
crea^^^mafe^.ofnnion in
which^ratfirai^diapgtwas possible
fi,]psh|e^}ip yon^ hot on April
l,.after much sound mid fury, an.
Act of !^meot : eomet into
forceccdigg* the njanagement and
navigat^ re^xundbility for the

whole area to the Broads Au¬
thority: a committee representing
district and county councils, natu¬
ralists, port and water authorities.
It effectively turns the Norfolk
Broads into a National Part

Only its legal and navigational
powers are a novelty. The Broads
Authority has existed for 10 years,
on a largely goodwill bans, after
energetic . lobbying from the
Countryside Commission. In
1973 its incoming chief executive
found only “a desk and a tele¬
phone”. He has held the fragile,
awkward position of catalyst and
co-ordinator for a decade and now
the same man has been re¬
appointed to head toe new, all-
powerful authority.

He is Aitken dark, a quiet 52-
year-okl Scot who is, in his. way,
probably as significant to the
history of toe Broads as any one
man will ever be. Until 1978 he.
had never been there. But after J 0
years as a professor of urban and
regional pfenning in South Caro¬
lina, and three years in Italy, he
came bade to Britain and applied
because “I wanted a problem¬
solving job”. He certainly got one.
The selection committee's first
choice had withdrawn because he
could not stand the prospect of
continuous conflict. It was Clark
who accepted.

“Of course, yachtsmen with
sails can do no wrong, and private
motorboat owners are considered
not to pollute as badly as hired
ones. It's a class thing, and poor
old Joe Tourist is the source of all
eviL Yet all the time, boat
pollution is a complete red her¬
ring. That has never been the
problem, except for a certain
amount of bird disturbance and
bank erosion. The really serious
pollution comes from elsewhere,
and you can't see it or solve it so
easily."

Clark listened, nodded in his

diffident way, promised nothing,
and set up a series of committees.
“I came back to my first architec¬
tural discipline,-and set a ‘project
end*. I roped in all the strongest
critics I could find from all
directions. Brian Moss was the
naturalist who was most sus¬
picious of the new authority, so 1
got him on a working party. I just
told them to ask the questions:
“What is this landscape? How
good is it, how bad is this water
and where? What can we do?*

Con&raed overleaf

Td say it’s the
plastic herons
that arejhe rare
species here.
The real ones
are alldame’

• •"..‘SW'

peter Fawwaf ftehelm: ‘People
were simply gofagofftoe place*

■y ooking through toe files,
m and talking to the vari-
m ou$ Broadbnd factions,
Jg _J it is dear that having
. lived abroad for 13 years
must have been an immense asset
to him. Belonging to no particular
class or tendency, as an academic

architect and planner he stood
benevolently aloof from toe
squabbling and in-fighting over
the Broads.

■ There were fictions of extreme
naturalists who wanted til the
boats banished or restricted in toe
interests of timid wildlife; yachts¬
men baying about ancient rights of
navigation; local people who sus¬
pected outsiders of wanting to
bankrupt their waterside shops
and boatyards (an ecology, in its
way, as fragile as anything on the -
riverbank); die Anglian Water
Authority, resentful of any inter¬
ference with its ways; the Port and
Haven Commissioners, jealous of
their responsibilities; and farmers
hell-bent on growing wheat, on
every available square inch of
fend, however destructive and
poisonous this might be to wild
habitats.

.pie irrationality of the average
argument about toe Broads is
summed up satirically by DrBrian
Moss, reader in Environmental
Studies at toe University of East
Anglia: **TheyTl tell you at Nor¬
folk dinner-parties that toe worst
polluters are day-tripper boats,
because they’re the chea p est Next
wont are tire hire boats, which toe

local residents claim to be toe
main problem.

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THE GREENING OF THE BROADS

Across the wider. Reedham ferry, the only one left on the Broads, still carries cars and trucks; and an aerial view of the muddy creeks of the River Ant, where water has been pumped and improved by the Bros # ; Authority fa mn attempt to protect wildlife

Continued from previous page

They always had to come back
with possible solutions."

Moira Walland, director of the
Norfolk Naturalists’ Trust, says:
“What he did is bang all our heads
together." Her affection for the
authority is all the more striking
because the trust has no represent¬
ation on its committee, despite
arguing fiercely for it. “But we keep
on at them, from outside. They're
doing marvellously," she says.

The next step for the fledgling
authority was to set up demon¬
stration projects. The most distin¬
guished is Cockshoot Broad, an
experiment in which the authority
blocked off a small privately
owned stretch of water, pumped
out the polluted mud and allowed
the native aquatic plants to regen¬
erate. It has worked, although
unwelcome nitrate residues still
leach into the Broad from the

farming catchment area, and will
continue to do so for decades. “It
proves that we can do it,” says
David Brewster, the conservation
officer. “The clock may take
decades to run down on polluted
mud, but we can get there."

Cockshoot nourishes water lilies
and green plants, butterflies and
birds: visitors can follow walk¬
ways and see how the Broads were
a century ago, and might be again.

The psychological impact of
Cockshoot Broad is incalculable:
for relatively little outlay, the
Broads Authority can brandish it
like a banner. Other individual
Broads are being pumped, “phos¬
phate-stripping” plants have al¬
ready created some improvement
in the water of the River Ant, and
Moss has evolved a complicated
scheme for encouraging water-
fleas (which eat the damaging
algae) by temporarily removing
fish (which eat the water-fleas).

The bittern, the bird which
symbolizes Broadiand more than
any other, is now more firmly
established in Lancashire than it is
in East Anglia, where its decline is
directly related to water pollution.
But the marsh harrier has re¬
turned. with 31 breeding pairs
recorded last year. When the
bitterns breed in greater numbers,
a significant battle for Broads
water quality will have been won.

A itken Clark says: “An-
sm glian Water was perhaps
/ I one of the hard nuts to
/ f crack and have a bad
press as polluters. But
they are taking a number of
initiatives, with our encourage¬
ment The idea of water privatiza¬
tion does trouble me. however."

Other projects bora out of the
working parties also took off Long
before the Government’s ESA
schemes compensated fanners in

environmentally sensitive areas
for not ploughing grassland, the
Broads Grazing Marsh Conserva¬
tion Scheme was hammered out
“We found that all * *hi« drainage
by the big formers was not
necessarily what a number of
small fanners really wanted. They
wanted to go on putting cattle by
the water and being traditional
marsh fa r m er s, " Clark says. Mod¬
erate financial incentives made it
possible to preserve rare marsh
habitats without conflict
However, a serious battle raged
a few years ago between conserva¬
tionists and formers over the
proposed draining of the HaJver-
gate Marshes, off Breydon Water.
It was perhaps then that the
Broads Authority won final reluc¬
tant trust from the naturalists*
lobby. “We had," says Clark, “all
the army of the National Fanners
Union against us at foil strength,
with an outdated cereal growing

policy still geared to the war effort.
But we would not move one inch
and those lovely solemn grazing
marshes are now safeguarded."

Moving on rapidly from talk of
battles, he drops a diplomatic
word of praise for the NFU and
says: “We really do not want to be
heavy-handed. We are living in
good times: public consciousness
of natural fragility is strong.”

After the banging together of
institutional beads and the steady
lobbying against chemical pollu¬
tion, wooing the public is high
priority. It is, after all, the public
whose boats erode the banks with
inconsiderate wash, whose wind¬
surfers crash into the reed-beds at
Hickling Broad and have,
Walland says sadly, “completely
frightened off the goldeneye, a
migrating duck. Sails are terrifying
to nesting birds" The public also
pays indirectly for such luxuries as
phosphate- s tr ip pers and mud-
pumps. So “green tourism" —
buzzwords coined by the English
Tourist Board and the Nature
Conservancy Council in cautious
partnership — is seen as essentiaL

The Broads Authority's pastel
leaflet on the Fun In The Broads
scheme offers eco-friendly
whispering electric boat trips to
see wildlife, a Bird Bus, a series of
walks starting at 530am for the
dawn chorus, and an evening out
on Carlton Marshes for the stir¬
ring activity of Hunt the Bogbean!

Like the authority’s subsidy of
the three marvellous Norfolk
wherries at Wroxham (which do
five-day school trips for £26 a
head to raise “green tourists" for
the future), it is a deliberate policy
of distancing the region from that
other kind of Broadiand fun
peddled in the Seventies, involv¬
ing silly bats and loud radios, and
brats getting stuck under Potter
Heighazn bridge. After the rorty
Seventies, it may take time to rink
in. It is only two years since I saw a
boater throw a beer-can at a
moorhen. It is a long conceptual
road from there to a proper
reverence for the marsh bogbean.

But Clark will not countenance
any uppity* middle-class attitudes.
Erosion is still a problem, so speed
restrictions may inlcnrify, and
there will certainly be new curbs
on insensitive mooring and such
inappropriate pastimes as water-
doing. However, he cheerfully
acknowledges that the rackety
crowds of partying boats at Horn¬
ing and Wroxham are also a
legitimate form of Fun on the
Broads. “We must not be
patronizing. Perhaps you and I
would like everyone to see the
Broads as they should be, not
surrounded by the urban razzma-

THE FIGURES:

• Approximately one million
annual visitors to the Broads,

Aitken Clark: wooing the public

We would not
move one inch
and those lovely
solemn grazing
marshes are
now safe’

tazz of holidaymaking, but people
have a right to come for what they
want.” v

He has great faith in the
“greenability” of--all tourists.
“They might come here for rowdy
fan but suddenly notice something
that brings them nearer to our
perception of the Broads, and to
an understanding of how they
could be."

/ ’n the meantime, some¬
where off the River Ant, the
reeds are shivering rhyth¬
mically. Hidden from the
riverbank, Eric Edwards, the
Broads Authority's - official
marshman, is finishing a record
winter’s harvest ofNorfolk thatch¬
ing reed. A burly figure in vast
rubber waders, brandishing a curi¬
ously complicated medieval
scythe of elder and boxwood, he
grabs and combs out each bundle
with the deftness of 22 years
experience.

His neat little Japanese reed¬
cutting tractor stands temporarily
idle: a few minutes' cutting by
hand in the old way is Edwards's
idea of relaxation. Bundling reeds
into his standard and refreshingly
unmetric unit of “three hand-
spans and a bit", he holds forth:
“Lovely reed this. Lovely and
hard.” He brashes the serried wet
ends as if he could never grow
tired of them: “Straight, dean.

200,000 users (2,126 boats in
1986).

• Private boats: 100,000-
150,000 visitors a year In 9,346
boats. Maximum ransity of
boats passing census point 1988:
1,000 a day at Hoveton, River
Bure.

• Angling licences: 51,000
issued fin typical year.

THE WHERRIES:

Norfolk wherries were the mein
form of cargo transport hi
Broadiand for two centuries,
until eliminated by road and rafl
competition. In the 19th century,
some were converted or bu&t as
private yachts. A fleet of three,
Hsrthor, CMrveand Norada, ana
supported by the Broads
Authorify and chartered with
professional skippers by
Wherry Yacht Charter, Barton
House, Hartwell Road,

WTOxham Norfolk NR12 8TL (0603
782470). Weekends from £20 a
head; there are special rates for
school weeks off-season.

lovely. I'd put that on my roof any
day. Lovely reed. I could talk
about reeds all day.”

Primitive, effective tools lie
around him in the sloppy marsh.
Edwards does not much care who
pays his wages, but regards his new
employers at the Broads Authority
with benevolence. “Aitken, he
don't know much about reeds.
Nah. None of 'em know about
reeds like I do. But I'll say this,
they're ready enough to listen to
people who do know. Ill say that
for them.”

Under the wide Norfolk sky,
wet-footed in the tall pale-golden
forest of feathery reeds, I had a
sudden cheerful inkling that given
steady, unimpulsive political
backing, everything might be all
right here after all. The regenera¬
tion of the Broads may turn out to
be a signpost for our times: of a
sinking of differences and a readi¬
ness to listen, of scientific persis¬
tence. and a gentle harnessing of
muddled but sincere public
goodwill.

Clark went off to yet another
meeting in his bare, white office,
and down the watery miles around
him, through neat villages and
boggy woodlands, on shimmering
lakes and muddy creeks, lay an
ecology of marahmen and. boat¬
men, water-fleas and brochure
designers, bogbean-hunters and
ice-cream sellers. It might work.

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REVIEW 29

MUSEUMS

exhibition

CALENDAR

MGELISKMffiER

INDIAN DAYS: Three^ay^
workshop for Qh8drenaged r 1 U
Kexptonngthefiv^fte r
North American Plains Indians,
noya« Museum of Scotland,
ChafrAereStreet; GfintMirah
(Ml 2S 7 5341o boo^. Tliurs.
Sat, 9.30am andUQpm-ttch
day. Chadren£Z50 for three
rays, helpful parents free.

THE GRAND NATIONAL
Collected trophies,
photographs and ephemera to
mark the 150th anniversary of
Aintree’s worid-femous
steeplechase. ..

Jtotipnal Hofwraclng Museum,
SSfe®£?e*i Newmaifcet
<0638 07333). Tue^Sat -
10am-5pm, Sun 2-5 pm. Adults
£1.60, cMWren 80p. Until
December.

RESTORED TO VIEW* Wort®
from the Chalmers Bequest—
17th-century seascapes and
20th-century pen-antHnk ..
drawings — return after ffve
years' absence. -

Hackney Museum; Central ’
HailjMare Street London E8
(01-986 69m Tues-Fri 10am-
Spm, Sat 1.30-5pm. Free. Una
May 6.

EASTER STEAM-UP: For two
days the museum's regular
collection of steam traction ■
engines wifl grind into fife
alongside a Gavioii fairgnxFjd
organ, roundabouts.

Bass Museum of Brewing
History and Shire Horse
Stables, Homin glowStreet,
Burton-on-Trent (0283 45301).
Mon-Fri 10am-4^0pm,
weekends 11 am-4-30pm.
Charge £2; children and OAPs
£1. Steam-up tomorrow, Mon.

Tournament

of the Mind

~~ • With 10 rounds completed. The Tunes

Tournament of the Mind enters its second
half today. Puzzle-solvers taking part will
THE TI MES know that the problems are beginning to get
>—j—a little harder. They should stick with it —
/\ * — (/ y ^\ the top 100 individuals will go through to
( the finals, and they are unlikely all to need

L / i{ the maximum score of 1,000 points.

• The Tournament is devised by Mensa.
Encyclopaedia Britannica and Collins
English Dictionary are the main sources.

Playing the game: at work i

in the Patrick CoUectloD motor i

near Mnriagham !

TOURNAMENT
OF THE MIND

On the road again

• The prize for The Times Mind of 1989 is
£5,000, and for the top school, a Hewlett
Packard personal computer.

1 DIAGRAMS

Score 8 MISO. Score 16

G ars are highly per¬
sonal objects — wit¬
ness advertising
campaigns built on
the proposition that we give
them pet n&mes—and motor¬
ing has a high nkmaigia quo¬
tient. So collections tend to be
idiosyncratic, to say die least.

The Patrick Collection at
King’s Norton, outside
Birmingham, was opened in
1984 by the West Midlands
motor mogul, Alexander Pat¬
rick. It was based initially mi
the family's 1930s “Specials”
— sleek aluminium bodies
built on standard chassis from
Austin, Wolsetey and Triumph.

. “As time went on we felt
that the British motor car was
beginning to lose its grip on
sales in this country,” Patrick
says, “so we decided to collect
some of the last, truly British
fansly motor cats. People say
’Why on earth are you collect¬
ing a Mini or a Talbot Alpine
ora FonJ Cortma?’', but these
cars are very important.”

The exhibits range from a
tiny 1930s Alco trainer, little
more than a motorized soap¬
box. to a 1988 Porsche 959, of
which only 24 were made.
Patrick bought it fbrfl55,000
and was offered £400.000 for it
10 days later. The r 80 vehicles
on show (of about 250 in the
collection) include Gloria
Swanson’s Daimler Conquest.
Richard Attenborough’s .
Daimler VS, Graham Hill’s
BRM, Nigel MansdTs Lotus,,
and a De Dion Bouton fire
engine. “They’re all runners
except two ,” says curator John
Ward, “and we're working on
those".

Jenny Gilbert

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• Museums Year Passport
holders will be able to welcome
HRH the Duchess of York,
Patron of Museums Year, to
their number this Thursday
when she is presented with ha-
own copy of The Tma Mnse-
urns Year Guide and Passport.

• The presentation wfll take
place during the Rojttf Gala
Evening at the International
Contemporary Ait Fair at
London's Olympia, an event
which launches a Special Re¬
serve series of events for
holders. The Duchess in turn
will present the £1(MN)0 Brit¬
ish Airways Most Promising
Artist award at Ae evere^ * 7 „

• Tickets, which oostXZO per
person and £38 i: pair, are*
half-price for Passport holders
in the Sepcial Reservearibeme.
Tickets can be bought ori 'tSe
night from 6pm at the special
Passport holders regfebatiaft.
desk at Olympia. . “ •’

Conquest, Bullnose, RT1 bus —
Simon Tail takes a nostalgic trip

. i The collection is housed in

the grounds of a former paper
min Patrick acquired 20 years
ago. There is a library, a
lecture theatre and a shop, all
open this weekend for the first
time, and hi the summer the
mill’s 1903 engine house
opens as a temporary ex¬
hibition hall.

A recent visit to
Disneyworid in 'Florida has
influenced developments: he
found that courtesy coaches
worked, so there are to be two;
a one-way traffic flow in the
main building will wy
congestion; and the shop is to
be enlarged.

The National Motor Mu¬
seum at Beaulieu, Hampshire,
was also very much the cre¬
ation of one man. Lord Mon¬
tagu. It opened in 1952 with
five cars in the front hall and a
charge of two-and-six pence.
He declared that if they got
100 visitors by the end of the
day they would have cham¬
pagne for dinner; instead, they
bad champagne for lunch.

The Beaulieu Motor Mu¬
seum duly became “national",
with half a million viators a
year and 310 vehicles. This
year it adds a £2.3 million
administration ' arid library
block with a 230-seat lecture
theatre, and a new vehicle
store. There are rides in open-
topped buses, a trolley ride
through historical tableaux,
actors recreating scenes from
the motor story, and you can
drivea 1920s Moms Bullnose.

Curator Michael' Ware be¬
lieves he has the best-thought-
out motor museum in the
world (he and colleagues have
also trodden the Disney path
in the planning processl.

In 1928. when London
Transport were doing an in¬
ventory, they found they still
had one of the first horse-
drawn omnibuses, and de¬
cided to preserve it.

I n 1980 a new museum for
London Transport’s
burgeoning coilectiorr
(they pay for the
preservation of the objects,
the rest of the revenue has to
be earned) opened in Covent
Garden and this year it, too.
has entered a new dev¬
elopment phase; The aim. says
keeper John Freeborn, is “to
intrigue, interest and inform",
but an experiment a fortnight
ago has added another aspect.
Three thousand visitors
boarded restored buses
brought from other parts of
the country on a ride through
the West End to AJdwych
Underground Station, to ride
on brand new experimental
tube stock. “It was an
opportunity to do things you
can’t do elsewhere, which is
what the museum is about
now — the word *do’ is
important," Freeborn says.

The event celebrated the
100th anniversary of the first
deep-level tube. Another'
celebration, in August, will

Eggs, bonnets and a parade

INTERNATIONAL MODEL
RAILWAY EXHIBITION:
World’s largest spedafist
model railway exh&tfon,
opened at 1 lain thtemorning
by the Rev Wilbert Awdry,
author of the Thomas the Tank
Engine books. Many .different
layouts, gauges; competition
winners and Network Sooth
East's futt-etze replies of the
“Networker”, the futuristic
commuter train scheduled to
enter service In the 1990s. - •
RHS Halls, Vincent Square-aod
Greycoat Street, London SWf.

Aselection of events around the
country over the holiday weekend

EASTER ATTHE LONDON
TRANSPORT MUSEUM:

Working scale models of a
1938 stock red Underground
traini plus two new exhibitions.
LoodooTransport Museum,
Covent Garden, London WC2
(01-3796344). Today until Mar
31, daUy4Qaifr6pm. Last
admission 6.15pm. Adult
£2.60, chid £1.20.

paintings, glass, jewellery,
ceramics and other items to
pro-1930 dateline. Lunches
available.

Spread Eagle Hotel and Town
Han, Thame, Oxfordshire
(084421 3661). Today 10am- •
5pm. Adult £1, child SOp.

MAO HATTERS TEA PARTY:

Famffy dayln the
Commissioner's House garden
with treasure hunt, face
painting, Punch and Judy,
games and music.

Chatham Historic Dockyard,
Dock Road, Chatham, Kent
(0634812551). Monday from
2pm. Adult 22J50 child £1.50.

10.30am-8pm,Thurs 10.30am-
5pm. Admission today, Mon to
Wed, adult £S, chRd 6-15 £2,
Sun and Thur, adult£4, child
£1.50.

TRADITIONAL FOOD FAIR:
Many tflsptiiys and
demonstrations of local and

regional produce.

Weted and Dovmiand Open Air

EASTER PARADE:
Entertainments from noon lead
up to a massive fireworks
display at 3pm followed by the
traditional parade with
marching bands and floats.
Battersea Park, London SW11.
Tomorrow from noon. Free.

CRAFTS ON THE FARM: Craft
demonstrations and items for
sale in various parts of the
1930s working farm. Young
farm animals, children’s
entertainments, free cart rides,

morrfs dancers. Refreshments.
Tattori Park, Knutsford,
Cheshire (0565 54622) today,
tomorrow, Mon laSOam-
4.30pm. Adult £1, child 50.

EASTER EGG HUNTS:
Thousands of small chocolate
eggs hidden throughout the
grounds with— at Eaeds..
Castle—50 extra silver eggs
and three golden ejjgs with
prizes; arrt at Uttfecote, one .

Chicbester,Sussex (0243
63348LTomorrow, Mon 11am-
4pn£*dult£230 1 chgd£1.25.

EASTER ATKNEBWORTH:
Re-enactmerirpf battles of the
American.ChrflWar. Today an
infantry diadernbnstratton,
tomorrow-arid Mon full
skirmishes. Phis an authentic
recreetioriof vifege life of the
period.

Knebwortb House; Knebworth,
Hertfordshire (0438812661).
House and garden open noon-
5pm, performances daily from
2.30pm. Arirmsson to-park and
displays adatt/dJfid £1.80.

HELP A LONDON CHILD
AUCTION: Capital Radio hosts
the auction, wife many Items
donated by local traders—
including a weekend in Paris,
two tickets for the Sinatra and
Sammy Davis Jr concert, teddy
beans and toys, a candlelit
dinner for two.

East Piazza, Covent Garden,
London WC2. Today 1-4pm.

ROSSENDALE FESTIVAL: Try
your hand at widow weaving
today, stone carving
demonstration tomorrow and a
circular walk around
Hasting den, egg treasure trail
for children on Monday plus
exhibitions and light
refreshments.

Groundworks Countryside
Centre, RawtenstaU,
Rossndale, Lancashire (0706
211421). Today, tomorrow,
Monday, admission free.

EASTER STEAMINGS: Many
steam railways wfll be in fid
operation over the holiday

Leeds Castle, oeapMaidstone,
Kent (0622 65400^ Today,
tomorrow, Moo1iarn-5pm.
Egg huntftQmZ3Qpm..A(felt
£4.80, chad £330.

Uttlecote House, Hungerfortl,
Berkshire (048884000}.' .
Tomorrow, Mon 10am-5pm,
adult £4.5©, cbjkf £350.

DEAL BRADERSSFMassive
market in thetownpentre and
'on the seafrorrt with charity
state, street entertainers, pop
groups, indoor ahtkkies and
craft fairs, ^Iraki displays, hog
roast and other refreshments.
Deal, Kent, Mon 9^0anv5pm.

Centre, DkktoL Oxfordshire
(0235 817200) and the Kent

and East Sussex Steam

Railway, Tenterden, Kent
(058065700).

EASTER ACTIVITIES IN THE
ROYAL PALACES: Egg hunts
at Hampton Court and
Kensington Palace foflowed by
art and craft activities.

The Buttery Kitchens,

Hampton Court and the
Education Centre, Kensington
Palace. Monday lOam-noon
and 2pm-4pm. Admission to
Hampton Court adult £1.80,
ch3d £1.40; to Kensington
Palace, adult £2.60, child
£1.30. Under-5s free at both.
50p per session.

EASTER AT MARGAM PARK:
Mock battles with over a
toousand members of the
Seated Knot Society, archery,
tins of war, craft fairs,

THARK EASTER ANTIQUES
FAIR: 50 exhibitors sefing
maps, furniture, prints.

Maraam Park, Port Talbot.
(0639871131). Today,
tomorrow. Monday.

CANAL DAY AT CAMDEN

LOCK: Trips on the Imrlcta
launch, guided walks to the
zoo, narrow boats and
traditional boat painting, stalls,
workshops, fflms and pirates.
Camden Lode, London NW1
(01-485 4457). Monday ntid
morning onwards, admission
free, charge for boat trips.

Judy Froshaug

The Kttighdey Way, named
after’ the fiutily ef ^awsley
Halhw»sestahlishfidifl 1972*
pr o v Mngw fim-rate rente in a
fipOart^f&Je'hBflaads. This
walk fottows its^ well way-
inarked^JSthaJfcr ' '
Thepath^t*rts#Badby, a
complex'vfffage wjtib a good
church. <K^»ih^ie church

Noble

pursuit

WEEKEND WALK

Head for the'Cburcb Isolated

mams of the villages are the
earthworks rf their houses
south of Fawsley Hall and
arouad the church. From the
church, ftmfaiuihig superb
monuments to the Kuigfatiey
family, head sooth between the
two lakes and riimb oat of die
valley. Cross fom- fields to
meet the road into Preston

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smaller wood^

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and W.^suid his son.. 6qah. a at the edge of Maude’s Heath
process of. evkfing Ae vD- wood. Beyond the wood Tmno
hwers replace tfcear with left oa to a bridleway that
sheep re- becomes a £an» road, and tbea

Farthingstone where, if well
timed, the pub wm be opeo.

Martin Andrew

give rides on the first
Routemasier bus. the RTI,
now 50 years old. Die mu¬
seum has bus cabs in which
children can work the con¬
trols. and even a simulated
dri ver’s-seat ride on the Circle
Line Underground.

In Hull, where a new trans¬
port museum called Streedife
opens in August, in the first
phase of a £4 million project
by the town’s museums ser¬
vice. the vehicles mereK pro¬
vide a back-drop.

The collection was started
in the 1920s by Tom Shep¬
herd. who almost single-
handed created Hull’s
museums. “This is not a
museum of transport technol¬
ogy,” says Dr David Fleming.
Hull’s principal keeper of
museums. “It’s a social his¬
tory museum using the theme !
of transport as a way of I
showing the change of life in
the city.”

The new museum is next to
the old Archaeology and
Transport Museum in the
medieval High Street, and the
orignal building is being refur¬
bished to become the Hull and
East Riding Museum of
Landscape.

The huge project is not
expected to be complete until
1993, but phase one opens this
summer. “We are taking the
vehicles and putting them in a
socio-economic context,
bringing wider local history
collections to create a com¬
prehensible picture. The ve¬
hicles wiD be scattered around
the building illustrating sep¬
arate themes, so you don’t
find all the horse-drawn buses
together.”

In titts diagram the squares
represent street blocks. Each
street block is 6 squares
miles. Van A travels at 21
miles per hour, van B at 30
miles per hour, van C at 35
mSes per hour and van D at
17 miles per hour. Assuming
they aft stmt at the same tone
which one will deliver its load
fust?

A B C D

1. What Is the next letter
in the series?

DFGHJK?

(Score 2).

2. What is a “German
88”? (Score 4).

3. What is a goby?
(Score 3).

4. Which American
suspension bridge
(1,280m long) was
completed in 1937?
(Score 4).

5. What is the second
largest of the Maltese
Islands? (Score 3).

2 VERBAL

Score 10

Replace the first letter of each word
either side of the brackets with a different
tetter. The letter should be the same for
each word and will form an Engfish word.
Repeat this for each of the eight pairs
and place the letters m the brackets. You
should then be able to read a tasty
word downwards. What is that word?

BRIM ( ) FLAN
OTTER ( ) ONION
BOOR ( ) ION
CROWN ( ) VIAL
GRATE ( ) ODES
TONE ( ) CAME
HORSE ( ) FOOD

3 LOGIC Score 8

If the code for BLACK is
23,7,22,24,6, what is the
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Nice place, shame about the dinky

bread pots. Jonathan Meades reports

T here is no mistaking it, the labelled as being the woii of the

British disease is gentility, chef, Shaun Thomson, but are also

Jt can be dangerous. Look autographed by him. They extend to

what happens when it glasses big enough to put your head
afflirfc fiill-harkc Full- in. tn a waiter asking “How do vou

T here is no mistaking it, the
British disease is gentility.
It can be dangerous. Look
what happens when it
afflicts full-backs. Full¬
backs are meant to behave like
Mark “The Man Not The Bali”
jPwtpk, that is to say they're meant
to spit, swear, fight. But occa¬
sionally, they are vitally infected by
gentility or, as we doctors call il,
Morbidus Momingside.

Take Dennis’s Southampton
predecessor, Alf Ramsey. Some¬
thing happened to him between his
leaving the Dell in '49 and his
succession of Walter Winterbottom
as England team manager 13 years
later--he transformed himself from
Alf into H'Alf and got couth along
the way, eventually going so far as to
call the 1966 H'Argentinian team
“h'animals”. thus fomenting the
Anglophobia which culminated in
the Falklands War.

Now, I doubt that the menu prose
at Jasoa’s Court Restaurant is likely
to have such momentous con¬
sequences, but I do reckon that it
will prompt punters to tear their
hair out, wince at its whimsy,
scream at its tweeness. What this
place needs is a touch of Mark
Dennis. Its h'airs and graces, its
h'aspirations to tertiary Morning-
side. extend. I'm afraid, way beyond
such constructions as “parcel
of..and “gathering of..

They extend to the (not very
good) bread which is served in the
dinky little flowerpots it is baked in.
They extend to Kilner jars of
pickled onions that are not only

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Jason’s Court off Wigmore Street

London W1 (01-224 29921

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dinner Mon to Sat

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labelled as being the woik of the
chef. Shaun Thomson, but are also
autographed by him. They extend to
glasses big enough to put your head
in. to a waiter asking “How do you
find the water, sir?”, to vegetables
served in cutesy little saucepans.
Further, the menu is not just
pretentious, it is also illiterate; its is
spelt it’s, suggesting that it's the
work of a sign writer; Chaputier and
Dubeouf are spelt thus.

None of this would matter, r
guess, were it not for the fact that
Jason’s Court is potentially a rather
good joint Strip away the hand¬
crafted mantle of gentility and
you’ve got a proper restaurant It’s
to be found down an unmapped
alley in Marylebone, opposite the
north end of St Christopher’s Place,
close to Marylebone Lane and next
to the Sveason Hair Centre on
Wigmore Street Its basement
premises once housed an Italian gaff
where immemorial Luigis con¬
ducted assaults of a different sort
The hangover comprises roughcast
walls, arched alcoves, bits of beam.

ChefThomson, the onion pickier,
used to be at the Fitzrovian place
called Aumie's. He is a quondam
pupil of Anton Mossiman, to whom
credit must go not merely as the
roan who breathed new life into trad
English dishes, but also as the
teacher and inspirator of a genera¬
tion of native chefs — he showed
them (and his punters) that gastron¬
omy begins at home. Thomson's
bread and batter pudding, for
instance, is a faithf ul and deUc io u*?
lift from Mossiman.

His cooking strikes me as having
come on 3 bit since he left Auntie’s.
It’s not so preciously basic as it was
there, and is apparently less con¬
strained by cost. For instance, he
now serves “potted livers of maize-
fed goose”, ie foie gras terrine.
Translating this into English is
about as pointful and elegant as the
vernacular Mass — French is the
lingua franca of menus, and to
depart from it is sheer affectation.
This went unsampled. The first

All his own work: chef Shaim Thomson at Jason’s Camt <rigw^ ano ther nr ighwi A«m pi» nfintrf^ pi Allng art

courses that were tasted were, first,
saute of mixed wild mushrooms
that had been preserved in different
ways — some, perhaps, in brine.
Others in sherry; alongside them was
a pastry sculpture of a tall-stiped
mushroom, something of the genus
lepiota perhaps? Second, haggis
Yes, haggis. This was the first time
I’ve seen it on a London menu. It
was excellent, and property served
with mashed potatoes and swedes.
The wine waiter kindly suggested h
might be improved by having
whisky poured on it. It wasn’t
improved, the kindness killed h.
StilL it’s good to see someone at last
serving one of Britain’s finest

Main courses were a thick chunk
of slightly too dry veal with bacon
and oysters, sauced with tomato
and port; and a big beef rib with,
again, a slightly too dry herb crust,
and a sauce made with mead. The
best of the vegetables was potato,
sliced and cooked in stock. As 1 said,
the bread and butter pudding was
terrific stuff. And the cheeses were
splendid, all English or Irish, all
unpasteurized: Spenwood, Ched¬
dar, Casbd Blue and a goat “Brie”
called Vedi GedL

The wine list is a bit of a problem:
it's not that it is avariciously
marked up, rather that its bottom
rung is too high. If the undoubted
enterprise used in compiling it were
to be directed towards a few
bargains from, say, Australia, then it
would be notable. And so, indeed,

would the restaurant, were it to
prerent itself in a more down-to-
earth manner. Still, it has the most
important ingredient, a gifted chef
who, despite his debt to his master
(or perhaps because of it), is clearty
developing into a truly accom¬
plished craftsma n . Two will pay
about £75, including a decent tip for
some decent service.

For all its infuriating ftiWwp it is
impossible not to acknowledge that
Jason’s Court has been created with
some conviction; it’s op its
own rales, is insouciant of the herd.
The Beat Street Brrtm ant, on the
other hand, gives the appearance of
having been created in respon s e to
market research. It’s so striyingfy
fashionable that it’s no surprise to
learn that it is owned by ragtraders.
It is appare ntly waited in fay them
too; the staff look as though they
have been bought wholesale from
some fearfully expensive little shop
in South Molton Street They gather
in little groups to talk Hnrh«^ and
the greeter wears a suit that was last
seen on Rip Kilby; he also has that
shamus's specs and hair cream. The
decor adheres to a sort of astrologi¬
cal theme there me murals and
anti-macassars (necessary, I sup¬
pose, if the punters too go for the
Rip Kirby look). The walls are a
dusty eau-de-Nil, the lights are
vaguely 1950s, in what was called
the “contemporary” style. You
don't have to be a fashion victim to
eat here, but it helps. The night I
was there my fellow diners included

not one, but two pop groups and
their vivand&res.

The cocktail list includes an the
most fashionable flavoured vodkas,
all the most fashionable imported
beers. The bar, however, is run by
someone who has as much idea of
how to mix a dry martini as I have
of bow to play a Fender
Stratocaster. The wine fist appears
to have been composed by someone
who has wandered round a few
i mffmwirm — still, the wines are
reasonably priced and some of
i twin, including a Bandoi, are
unexceptionable.

The cooking is, perhaps, not the
main point in a place like tins. It
isn’t dirfF, but it is rather direction¬
less. A couple of first course salads,
one of (tiny) scallops, the other of
gravadlax, were both accompanied
by enough lettuce to feed several
w arre ns of fashionable rabbits. And
rabbits don’t have dressing on their
■mlads. Main courses comprised
pretty good calf liver with bacon
and onions, and monkfish with
tomato and (it said) coriander—this
arrived stone cold, and had to go
bade for reheating. A “grand selec¬
tion” of sweets was impressive —
there were notably good chocolate
mousses and the tenon tart was well
made. Two will pay about £60 in the
evening mid quite a lot less at
lunchtime, when the menu includes
such things as bubble and squeak—
which is entirely appropriate in a
restaurant on the site of a former
tavema.

directory

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restaurants visited In recent
months - management mjd.
standards may have changed.

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swags and chandeliers. Dishes

described are Included togfva.

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may we8 have changed. Prices
quoted are for a three-course
meal with drinks for tojp, and
are detmtrtned according to

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Big, beefy blockbuster

W ith Easter falling so
early this year,
polishing off the last
of the winter reds this week¬
end appeals more than crack¬
ing open the first of the spring
whites. And as it’s a holiday, I
shall spoil mysdf with a bottle
of what the wine world gen¬
erally acknowledges as Austra¬
lia’s finest red wine: FenfokTs
Grange Hermitage;

1981 Grange b on sale
today at 75 branches of
Threshers for £24.95. not
extortionate given that La
Vigneronae is selling the same
vintage for £29.50.

This e xt ra ordin ary wine has
an extraordinary history.
Grange was devised by Max
Schubert, one of the great men
in Australia's wine history,
who, after a visit to Bordeaux
in 1950, modelled his new
wine as closely as he could on
the production methods of tbe
first-division darets he had
tasted in France. Australia, in
those days, had few Cabernet
Sauvjgnon plantings, so Schu¬
bert had to use the ubiquitous
Shiraz, or Syrah grape. But he’
selected the best Shiraz fruit
he could find, from first-class
vineyards close to Adelaide.

His aim was to make the
biggest, beefiest, most con¬
centrated red wine possible,
and to age it in small, new oak
casks, a practice he had first
seen in France, but which was
unheard of at that time in
Australia. The end result was
an astonishingly intense, rich,
burnt, port-like mouthful,
with overtones of leather,
herbs, creosote and tar,
backed up by an enormous
thwack of luscious, blackberry
and blackcurrant-like fruit
Once tasted. Grange's im-
misukaUe character is never
forgotten.

Penfold’s was embarrassed
by the cool reception that the
early vintages of Grange re¬
ceived. and told Schubert to
stop malting the wine; but he
continued to produce Grange
secretly. Today’s Grange has
become lighter and more
approachable in style, al¬
though this was body disputed
in Australia in December by
John Duval, Pen fold's tal¬
ented chief winemaker, who
said il was nothing more than
“seasonal variation”. Suffice
it to say that Grange *81. with
its opaque, purply-red colour
and rich, tniffley, cassis scent,
leading on to a hefty, burm,
cedaiy palate, is definitely
worth experiencing.

Lamb is the traditional
Easier Sunday dish, and Beau-
jolaxa is its traditional partner.

Jane MacQnftty favours a red Easter
— beginning with Australia’s finest

Salisbury’s has just in¬
troduced a new 1987 St
Amour cm beaujotais to its
Vintage Selection range, avail¬
able in 90 branches, which
would go splendidly with the
new season's rosy pink lamb.
This well-made cm from the
excellent 1987 Beaujolais vin¬
tage is a tingle estate wine
from the respected merchant
house of Loron, which sup¬
plies Salisbury's with all its
Beaujolais. I eqjoyed the crim¬
son purple colour, rich mo-
rello cherry scent and velvety,
cbeny-tike palate of this *37
Saint-Armour from the

but it is drinking so deficioutiy
now that I would ignore the
purists and boy a bottle or two

for tiie Easter weekend. While
yon are at Oddbins, pick up
some more of that discounted
£8.99 Bricout Carte Noire
champagne that L recom¬
mended last week; it’s about
to go up to £10.75.

If you are looking for top
quality vintage, rather than
non-vintage, champagne,
given that IS per cent in¬
creases are likely soon, Goraey
and Barrow, the Queen’s wine
merchant, at 12 Helmet Row,
London, ECl, has limited

Domaine Aufranc (£5.25).

If you have guests for Easter
and want to keep the wine
costs down, Oddbins con¬
tinues to outshine tbe other
High Streeters with its top
wines at low prices. They have
just got hold of Paul Jaboutet
Aine's *87 Crraes-Hennitage,
tbe superior Domaine de
Tbalabcrt variety, fora knock¬
down £3.99 (Majestic sold the
'86 vintage of this wine for
£5.49 a bottle). This hearty
late winter red boasts a deep
purple-black colour, backed
up by that unmistakable
Jaboulet combination of blade
pepper spice and rich, ripe,
black and red berry fruit on
the palate. Strictly speaking
this wise should not be
broached for several years yet.

cases-only stocks of
Ddamotte’s glorious 1982
vintage champagne, whose
flowery peppery scent and
intense, elegant, flowery pal¬
ate is given away at £175 a
case (£14.55 a bottle). So far,
Gorney is the only stockist I
know of this sensational sttsf£
produced by Ddamotte Pfae
et Fils, which sounds like a
small champagne house but is
actually pan of the huge
Nonancouil family empire,
whose other interests in cham¬
pagne include Laurent Perrier
and Salon Le MesniL This
offer closes on March 31.

Talking of offers, one not
worth switching the Boat Race
off for is the Sunday Times
Wine Club’s latest Having
lasted more dub horrors than

WINE BUYS

• 1987 Goody Bay
Chardonnay £9.99, Thrashers.
Wine makers Damp Hohnen
and Kevin Judd continue their
successful Antipodean
partnership with th» splendid
Chardonnay, whose pale,
greeny-gold colour, and
elegant fresh, ripe, buttwy-
zetiy scent end taste make ft
or® of the finest New Zealand
Chardonnays around.

• 1986 Mount Hotrocks
CatareCM8eriot£7^5w

Fulham Road Wine Centra,
899-901Fufliam Road. London
SW6. This stylish, mimy-chssls
mouthful has a luscious,
^fackcurrantpastfflo-TiKe
palate, and. as toe centre
pants out is deceptively easy
to donk¬
ey Salisbury's Pale Dry
Manmaia £1.75, Sainsbur/s.
HaH-botaes of this splendid,
fresh, pungent, flowery sherry
are back in stock again after a
years gap. Buy some.

delights over the past decade, I
should be immune by now to
their ultra-appetizing tasting
notes and smooth sales talk.
But no, every time I read one
of their glowing commun¬
ications I rush to tire phone.
The dub’s March wine list
featuring “eight unique
French wines” from the “fly¬
ing winemakers” illustrates
my stupidity perfectly. I first
heard about this enterprise
from wine man Dr Tony
Jordan in . Australia last
December; he had organized a
group of Antipodean wine¬
makers to fly to south west
France to vinify the 1988
French harvest Jordan's lop-
notch reputation, plus those of
his flying winemakers. Austra¬
lian Martin Shaw and John
Bclsham from New Zealand,
convinced me that this offer
could not be missed.

Having just tasted the eight
wines, I can assure you that
this is no dual Franco-Austra-
lian celebration, as I had
hoped, but merely an accept¬
able but not especially exciting
collection of young, well-
made, squeaky clean white,
red or rose southern French
wines. It is intriguing to
speculate how different they
would have been without the
Antipodean input; I am sure
they would have been rather
more rustic and less hi-tech in
style; but they might have had
more flavour. New technology
' is fine when it allows the
original fruit to shine out,
unmasked by faulty fermenta¬
tion aromas and the like, but
not when it streamlines it to
distinction. Still, those -who
want to see what all the fuss is
about should order the £49.95 -
Sampler Case from the Sven-
day Times Wine Club, New
Aquitaine House. Paddock
Road, Reading 0734 472288.
In it are two bottles each of a
neutral lemony Chardonnay.
a lart herbaceous Cabernet
Sanvignon, a zesty Syrah, and
a straightforward peachy
Semillon, plus a bottle each of
four other wines. For the same
£4.16 a bottle that these
sample case , wises cost, you
can purchase finer, more fla¬
voursome wines either from
elsewhere in France or Austra¬
lia. If you would like to taste
these wines, but don’t want to
buy the case, why not attend
the dub’s event ax 730pm on
Match 31 at the Swan Hold in
Streatley-on-Thames? All 12.
wines mil be availabie for
tasting, sopped up by a finger
buffet Tickets are £30 each;
order them direct tbe
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flat and smoked

K ana Perry spent two
years searching through
England, Scotland and
Wales for good fish¬
mongers where helpful
ana knowledgeable'service is com¬
bined with a fresh and varied
selection of fish; The fishmonger is
a swcies in decline, but the results
of Perry’s research are published
£is week in The Fish Book, and
fortunately she has found some
notable survivors. The book, with
each chapter devoted to a different
region, is a snapshot of the fish trade
in Britain today. We I earn why the
pacolnsbire port of Boston is no
longer a major fishing port, and hear
about some of the manv absurdities
surrounding the fish trade - for
example, why it is easier for a
Birmingham fishmonger to get sup¬
plies of samphire from Rungis, in
Paris, than from Norfolk; why
lorries with huge fish tanks from
France and Spain queue up as the
boats are unloaded to buy up our
catches of prime -Oat fish a nd
exquisite shellfish.

For too long, she warns, we have
regarded fish as a cheap food, or
even worse, as a cheap alternative to
meat. And she is right. I recently
heard someone on the radio saying
that if it had been a good week, he
could have steak and chips, but if H
was a bad week for sales, he would
be reduced to fish and chips.

Let us hope it is not too late. Start
supporting your local fishmonger.
And if you move to a different part

of the cotmtiy, consult Perry’s book.
Or take it with you on your travels
in Britain so that you can hunt out
Cbrnisb brill and Yarmouth bloat¬
ers, and find the fishmongers who
smoke their own fish without dyes.

The Fish Book is also a rich
source of fish recipes, from the
simple to the more elaborate, from
those using the familiar plaice and
cod to those using fish flown in from
the Seychelles, and the less familiar
fish from our own waters which
make excellent and inexpensive
dishes. This is the only bode I know
which describes in detail how to
make and preserve salmon eggs like
caviare.

The first two recipes arefrom her
book. 1 am sure, however, that she
would not mind my suggesting that
if you cannot get Jerusalem arti¬
chokes for the first recipe, new
potatoes would also he delicious.
The earthy flavour of artichokes
seems to many well with shellfish.
If possible, serve the salad while the
artichokes are still slightly warm.

Mussel and Jerusalem
artichoke salad

(Serves4) . ’ „ » .,. i

2b/l kg mussels, cleaned: ~ '

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4 tbsp olive oil or 2 tbsp

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drain, peel and cut them into shoes.

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whh the shallots and white wine and
cook them over a high heat until
they open. Remove the mussels and
lake them out of their shells. Set
aside with a spoonful of the cooking
juices to invent them drying out.
Strain the rest of the juices through
muslin into a dean saucepan and
reduce - rapidly until only three
tablespoons offiquid remain. Lower
the heat and whisk in the oil so that
it becomes emulsified. Add the
lemon juice and pepper. Arrange the
salad leaves, sliced artichokes and
mussels on individual plates and
spoon the warm dressing over the
lop. Sprinkle with chopped parsley. -

Gotgons of boss utith red
peppersauce

(Serves 4) _•__

1 %lb/600g huss, fitfeted

wholemeal flour _

darified butter or offve o<i _

frlacfboTives togaftush (optional) ’ ;
For the sauce _

2 tbsp finely chopped shallots

1 gartto clove, crushed

Ittrep olive oft _ -

2 medium red peppers •_

1 tbsp tomato concentrate
smaB sprig of thyme
1 tbsp wine vinegar _

8fl oz/250ml fish or chicken

stock or water _

salt and pepper

First prepare the red pepper sauce.
Sweat the shallots and garlic in oil,
then add the roughly chopped
peppers together whh the Test of the
ingredients. Cover and simmer for
20 minutes or until the peppers are
soil. Reduce if it seems too liqtrid.
Season to taste. I find that if I grill
the peppers before cooking to
remove the skin, allowing the flesh
to become a little charred, their
flavour is improved.

D ogfish is the name app¬
lied to a number of
different families and
species of small sharks.
They are usually sold
commercially as huss. flake or rigg,
also rock eel or rock salmon.
Normally these fish are headed and
skinned at the port of landing, so it
is not easy to identify them on the
fishmonger’s slab, but there are
several species commonly caught in
British waters.

Cut the fish into fingers and roll
in seasoned wholemeal flour. Fry in
clarified batter or olive oil until
golden. Garnish with stoned and
sliced black olives, if you like, and
serve "with rice and crisp green
vegetables. .

like Perry, I could happily cook
and serve two or three fish courses

in one meal, but not everyone
shares this passion. Nor does every¬
one have access to good wet fish
shops.

Here is a very good roast recipe. It
requires tune spent on it in prepara¬
tion. but once it is in the oven, it
needs little attention. Breast of lamb
can be substituted for the veal, but it
is fattier and needs more tri mming .
If you cannot get sweetbreads, use
veal or lamb’s kidney, neither of
which need blanching, but the fatty
core should be removed. Order the
meat in advance, boned and
trimmed, and ask for the bones.

Roast breast of veal stuffed
with sweetbreads and herbs

(Serves 6) _

J /.lb/34Qg calves sweetbreads
2yzlb/l7lkg breast of veaJ
salt

pepper _

•Ttemon

Ktb/HOg fresh spinach leaves
2oz/60g fresh parsley _

handful fresh sotrei or
4 lettuce leaves _

2 doves garlic, peeled and crushed
1oz/30g softened butter _

1 tbsp chopped fresh tarragon
leaves _

veal bones _

1 carrot _

1 onion

1 celery stalk _

%pt/280ml white wine _

Soak the sweetbreads in cold water

for an hour or two. Open out the
boned breast of veal, and trim off
any excess fat and gristle. Season
lightly with the salt and pepper and
finely grate lemon zest over the
meal. Cover loosely and put to one
side in a cool place while you
prepare the stuffing.

Sirip the spinach, parsley, sorrel
or lettuce leaves from their stems
and place in a large colander. Potir
enough boiling water over the
leaves to blanch them, then drain
them and put them in a bowl of ice-
cold water for 30 seconds. Drain
again and dry the leaves thoroughly
by rolling them in a dean teatoweL
Chop them roughly and mix with
the garlic, butter and tarragon, and a
tablespoon of lemon juice. Spread
this over the breast of veal, cover
loosely, and put to one side while i
you prepare the sweetbreads.

Remove any gristle and the
membrane. Put in a saucepan, cover
with cold water, add Vt teaspoon salt
and bring slowly to the boiL Hold at
simmering point for three minutes,
and then drain and rinse the
sweetbreads under plenty of cold
running water. When cool enough
to handle, lay them down the centre
of the veal breast, roll up the meat
and lie it at 1 in/2_5cm intervals. Pul
the veal bones in a roasting tin
together with the vegetables and
place the veal roll on top: Moisten
with four to five tablespoons of
white wine. Roast at !50-
170°C/300-325°F, gas mark 2-3, for
3 to 3*h hours, moistening it from
time to time with a little more white
wine or water. Remove the meat
from the oven, and let it rest in a
warm place for 10 to IS minutes
before slicing. Pour off the cooking
juices to make a gravy.

Dried figs poached in jasmine tea

(Serves 4) _

12-16 dried figs _

1 Y> pt/S50ml jasmine taa _

2 bay leaves _

honey or sugar (optional) _

3%fl oz/lOOml double cream

Put the figs in a sieve, and pour
boiling water over them to remove
any ou or preserving spray. Poach
them gently until lender in the
jasmine tea. together with the bay
leaves. Remove them from the
syrup with a slotted spoon, and put
them to one side. Reduce the liquid
to about '/>pi/200ml, sweetened if
you think it needs it, and reboil until
syrupy. Pour off half into a jug, and
with the remaining syrup boiling
vigorously, stir in the double cream,
and cook it until slightly thickened.
Served the figs, still warm, on
individual serving plates with the
dear syrup to one side and the
cream sauce to the other.

(0 Tmes Newspapen Ud 1989

The Fish Book by Karin Perry is
published by Chatto & Windus,
price £14.95.

CHESS

Usually the games which
appear in this column have a
decisive result, one way or the
other. Drawn games suffer
from a bad press. Indeed, ’
oontentless agreements to split
the point are certainly hot
worthy of publication. It
would be wrong, though, to
assume that no drawn games
are interesting. A well-fought
draw can be every bit as
stirring as a win. Take, for
example, the following fierce
battle between Britain’s high¬
est-rated player and the 17-
year-old who is tipped by
many experts to be his succes¬
sor. The advantage appears to
swing back and forth, though
in reality, the positions are
probably more or less in
equilibrium the whole time. It
takes, however, play of an
extremely high order ou both
sides to demonstrate this.
White: Nigel Short; Blade
Michael Adams. James Capel
Speed Chess Challenge,
London 1989.

Caro-Kann Defence.

Fiercely fought to a draw

1 *4

c6

2 04

d5

3 Nc3

0*04

4 Nxe4

Nd7

5 Bc4

NS*

6Nb5

e6

7 Q«2

NM

8 BU3

h6

Black cannot - play the.
tempting 8 Qxd4 on ac¬
count of 9 NglB Qd8 10 NeS.
with an attack against f7
which cahnot.be parried.

9.N5I3 C5 10 C3 Cxd*.

. A premature capture which
facilitates White’s dev¬
elopment. Correct is 10 M
Qc7.

tl MuK Bs 7 12 Ngf3 0-0
13 (Ml M7 14 tUS Bat

Due to the impressive mo¬
bilization of White’s forces.
Black is already skating on
very thin ice. Thus, Short
could now have tried 15 Nxe6
faefi 16 Bxe6+ Kh8 17 Ng6+
Kh7 18 Nxe7 Qxe7 19 Bf5+
wbeo Black is lost Fortu¬
nately for Adams, though.
Black has the superior 16
Kh7 at his disposal, when
White has no clear continu¬
ation of his attack.

15 BM Qe8 ‘ 16 NgB HmB

OF course, 16 ~ fxg6 would
fail miserably to 17 Bxe6+
winning Black’s Queen. •

17 lto*7+: Rxa7 IB NS Rd7

- Not 18 _exf5 19 Qxe7 with
decisive gain of material.

1SBM4 Nn4 20 Nxg7 Kxg7

White has sacrificed a piece
not only to shattcr the Blade
King’s wing, but also to expose
the Black Knight which has
been lured ioa4. White’s next

move, pinning the Black
Knight on AS, makes both
these motifs dear.

21 BflS QcS 22 Qg«+ Kh7

Black has been unable to
save his extra piece, indeed, he
has now lost a pawn and his
King’s fortifications appear
smashed. Most onlookers be¬
lieved that Black was lost, but
now the talented teenager
from Truro whips up a fero¬
cious counterattack in the
open “g” file.

23 BarfB RgB 24 Gh3 Nx&2

2S Bd* Rg6 2ft f* (5

27 RO Qe4 28 Ra3 QxH

In order to beat off Black’s
pressure,' White has been
obliged to jettison his f4 pawn.

29 Ra«1 Octs 30 RxsS RxflS

After the game Short
pointed out that his sacrifice
of the Rook on move 30 was
the only way to keep his
chances alive.

31 QxfSt- HgS 32b4 Re7

If now 33 Rxe7+ Qxe7 34
h5 then Black wins with 34 _
Qel+ 35 Kh2 Qg3+ and _.
Qxg2 mate. Short’s next move
is a brilliant resource which
not only deflects Black’s ini¬
tiative, but also permits
White’s own offensive to flare
up once again.

33 R*21l

WINNING MOVE

In file diagram. White
can win swiftly. What is
White’s winning
move?

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Sotidton to yesterday's position: White
wins with 1 Be5 since 1—QxgS 2 QhS+
Kf? 3 QH7+ to fatal lor Biadu

sinsB from the
QausdaJ 1900.

The three winners arr D.Ctoeska,
Southgate, flunocora, Cheshire; T.

ABCDE FGH

A wonderfully imaginative
conception. White now threat¬
ens 34 hS winning the pinned
rook on g6, as well as 34 Rxb2.
Meanwhile, Black cannot play
33 Rxe2 on account of 34
' Qf7+. Faced with such a coup
Adams does well not to suffer
instant nervous collapse.

33 — QcJ7 34 Qf8 Rdg7

Black has to prevent 35 Qh8
mate

35 Rxb2 RgB 38 0*3 b6
37 h5 RgS 38 RQ

A better chance might have
been 38 Re2.

30 — Rea

Sensibly seizing the im¬
portant open file.

39 Od3f> KpB 40 RfS RoS
41QC4 Rd5 42Rg&+ RxgB
43hxg6 b5 44Qb3 Qefi
45 Qbl Rg5

Black should, perhaps, have
tried 45... Qe2.

48 g7 mS

If now 46 — Qe2 47 Qb3+
Qc4 48 Qdl averts Black’s
counterattack against gZ

47 on 0*7 48 CM2 Rrg7

Realistically, Blade has no
way of ex^oiting his advan¬
tage of Rook against Bishop
given White’s lowering
compensation in the form of
the passed pawn on g7. Ad¬
ams, therefore, liquidates to a
drawn Queen and Pawn
endgame.

49 Bxg7 Kxg7 50 Ofl3r Kh7

Draw agreed. An absolutely
splendid example of mental
cut and thrust, which does
honour to both sides.

Raymond Keene

BRIDGE

What do you need to win at
high stake rubber bridge? Ob¬
viously, you must be a good,
practical player. But you will
also require a deep pocket to
withstand the inevitable tad
run. And perhaps most im¬
portant of all, you must have
nerves of steel
Let me describe an after¬
noon session whidi one of the
better players in tfafrbig game
recently experienced. -
On the second hand of the
first Chicago, with only his
opponents vulnerable, our
hero dealt , and opened three
hearts. The opposition com¬
peted with more enterprise
than discretion, and.his part¬
ner doubled foe eventual .con¬
tract of five. ’diamonds.
Declarer, ratlled by the turn of
events, revoked,,. effectively,
trumping his own Ace. When
the smoke cleared, that was
2,000. to foe good gays.' . •
Unhappily, this was. fol¬
lowed almost immediately by

Cool nerves, deep pockets

an instructive misunder¬
standing.

As South, you deal and
pass. The bidding unfolds
like this:

How do you construe
North’s pass of foe redouble?
South decided That North
-wanted to defend against two
spades redoubled. North; as
it happened, was merely
reluctant to introduce a
moderate suit at that point
Who was right? I befieve foe
majority . would ride with
North. Certainly *1 .would.
East-West made tiro spades
exactly, whereas North-South

could have escaped un¬
scathed in their best strain at
foe three level
Now came a tricky deci¬
sion in foe play after a
competitive auction.

Chicago, Rubber Bridge.
Game AIL North-South 60.
Dealer North.

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East won the opening lead
with the OA and returned the
OQ. Concluding that East,
hokfing the <?J3, was trying
to budd up a second trump
trick. South played a trump
towards dummy, playing the
Kong when West followed
with the V3. Sadly East
discarded a spade, and foe
contract was lost.

Good deceptive defence by
East, but mature reflection
might have suggested that
East’s bidding could only be
explained by some distribu¬
tional factor.

When this, the last hand of
the final Ghi e q go was dealt,
foe Teaxiy profits bad
disappeared.'

Chicago. Rubber

Bridge-Game Afl. Both sides
60. Dealer West

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panattH, won Wife wt * mstofc*.

The 'declarer on this occa¬
sion was an experienced
international. Recognizing
foe lead as a singleton, he
won in dummy and played a
spade to his band whidi our
man. South, ducked.

At this point declarer
polled a shrewd stroke by
playing a diamond himself.
South gave this a suspicious
look, but discarded a dub.
The straightforward defence
to beat the contract was no’
longer available. Declarer
continued with dummy's 4K,
whidi South, possibly un- ;
nerved by his play to foe |
trick before, won. Now there
was no defence.

If South ducks the +K he
can maintain control Sup¬
pose declarer plays another
spade, South wins, and
switches to hearts. Declarer
now lacks- foe viral entry to
his to draw trumps.

Jeremy Flint

More strings
to their bow

Jenny Gilbert examines the boom in
violins as the dealers arrive in London

In foe well heeled environs of would matter. But since no two
Btod Street and St James’s, players would ever agree
foe sight of large numbers of (what's honey-toned to one ear
foreign gentlemen in raincoats is muddy to another), violins

is common enough. That Hi fey
week many of them are carry¬
ing violin cases should be no
cause for alarm: foe fiddle-
trading season has arrived.

Phillips has just brought
down foe hammer on 360 tots
of instruments and bows; at
the end of the month,
Sotheby's and Christie's will,
between them, dispatch sev¬
eral hundred more, including a
couple of first-class specimens
whidi may pip the half-million
pound mark, a precedent set
last year at Sotheby’s when a
Gnarneri violin, made in Cre¬
mona kx 1743, sold for a cool
£572,000.

Onr auction booses offer the
only regular specialist in¬
strument sales in foe world.
Hence the Influx, three times a
year, of dealers from the
Continent, America and, more

tend to be treated as works of
art The form and finish, foe
quality of craftsmanship, are
what counts, and authenticity
is paramount.

Wells and his team spend
every working day engaged in
the most exacting detective
work. With the work of lit¬
erally thousands of makers in
drcnlation, and pitifully few
books of reference on the
subject, the task is Herculean.
Malcolm Sadler, for one, pre¬
fers to cast bis own eyeglass
over all the salerooms’ offer¬
ings, as he has done for more
than 40 years. His shop,
Ealing Strings, is a west
London mecca for fiddle
enthusiasts, with violins on
sale from £600 up to £150,000.

“Never speculate,” he in¬
sists as a first principle; “don’t
look for bargains, and do take

recently and significantly, Ko- advice. There are countless
rea and Japan, where foe more fiddles of no known origin on
talented and persevering of the market. People get excited,
students tanght by the Suzuki think they've found something

method on cheap Japanese
instruments are now clamour¬
ing for better, preferably an¬
tique, European models.

Learning to play_

foe fiddle has
never been more ,

popular; collect- TTcf /
ing, for recreation 7
or investment or J)
both, is growing; .

prices across foe yj YV

ST— 3,000

“It started with A wit

a bump in 1971,” Afrit
recalls Graham
Wells, foe head
of instruments at Sotheby’s.
“In ’69 the record for a Strad
was £22,000, and only two
years later we sold the famous
1721 Lady Slant Stradivari as
for £84,000.” In a normal

> Japanese special, bat if always turns out
rw clamour- to be junk.”
ferably an- His current tip is to look for

i models, good modern instruments.

_ “Antonio Capella

makes qnaiity

’He made

1,000 bows, STZZiZ
of which £3BS
3,000 are in SSMSS
America’ 2? "SMS

. Lough, one of oor

finest English

Sotheby’s, makers.”
for a Strad Bows are a simpler propo-

L only two rition. Apart from the joy of
the famous their slender beauty and often
taadivaiiiis rich materials (gold, silver,
a normal mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell

week Wells and his colleagues or ivory), they need be kept in
can expect to be presented no special conditions — even

with between 50 and 60 violins
for valuation which bear foe
legend “Stnutivarias” on foe
label stock inside. It is a task
whidi rarely excites him. “I
spot them as they come
through the door. German

foe bottom of a drawer will do.

The best fiddles came from
Italy, foe best classical bows
from France. (Makers always
specialized in ooe or foe other;
foe two rarely appear as a set)
“Eugene Sartory is foe great

factories churned out tens of name to look oat for in bows,”
thousands of these from 1830 says Sadler, “bat a gain be¬

ta foe ead of foe centniy. Faces
drop when I teD people their
heirloom might fetch a couple
of hundred pounds.”

ware: people say he made
1,000 bows, of which 3,000 are
in America. Even in his life¬
time people made copies

The baying and selling of stamped ‘Sartory’. He got a
violins has been riddled with reparation for going round

such “confusions” since foe
17th century, and although
ootrigfat fraud reached its peak
In the 19th centnry, foe prac¬
tices continue original labels
are swapped around; finger¬
boards or tailpieces are doc¬
tored, or replaced by “better”
ones; modern instruments can
be “antigHed” with frightening
skill, sampfating foe subtle
patterns of wear acquired by
200 years of use.

If tiie value of a fiddle were
determined purely by the
soond it produced, none of this

breaking them over his knee.”

Even violins and bows which
come to sale with certificates
of authentication have been
proved to be fakes. In the
trade, both dealers and sale¬
rooms will compensate foe
purchaser of a fake. Modest
collectors would do well to
narrow the field, Sadler says.
He suggests specializing in,
say, all 19th-century English
makers, or the Germans,
whose reputation has been
unjustly tarnished by the fac¬
tory-made jobs.

What price
excellence?

Less than you might think with these superb
clarets from the House of Cordier—one of the
greatest names in Bordeaux.

Our petits chateaux selection — Tanesse,

Le Gardera and Plagnac — offers you the
opportunity to savour three remarkably fine
Bordeaux wines at surprisingly agreeable
prices.

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L fl® George Michael,
Michael Jackson and
others who have ap-
preached Eighties-
style rock stardom as a well-
“tefwshed profession, no one
co pw a ccuse Madonna of
“attention to the quality of
kerwwfc like a Prayer is a
carefuBy written and meticu-
«Mdy produced collection of
modem pop songs that ache a

little, bounce a lot, and prom-
tse nothing more than they
can ultimately deliver.

_ Bot as with the work of her
peers, it is difficult to judge
how much of her music is the
product'of real fading, and
how much of it is a coo&y
ca lc u lat ed ex ercise in Hne with

•^-UkAaPrayerfSi™

The mildly titillating mixture
of religious .and sexual im¬
agery that has already pro¬
pelled the title track to No 1 is
a good case in point.

The best art reflects life, but

there is an unhealthy neatness
about the way in which the
melodrama of the real-life
break-up of Madonna's mar¬
riage to Sean Penn provides
roma ntic l yrical fodder for the
song “Tin Oeath Do Us Part”,
which is delivered in a robotic
semi-rap style reminiscent of
fikmdiCs “Rapture”.

Elsewhere the delights are
mixed. The all-purpose funk/

Steam-driven

Q«ny Muffldan Hie Age of
Steam (A&MCDA08M) -

Wee Montpomery Down Here
on the Ground (CDA 0802)
George Benson Shape of

George Benson Shape of
Things to Come (CD A 0803)

Gerry Mulligan has spent
most of the 1980s leading one
of the most creative big bands
currently active in jazz, but if
you want to examine its
qualities in the comfort of
yoor borne, you will be hard
put to find recorded evidence
of its existence:.

About 10 years .ago, there
was a fairly representative
album called ,Walk on the
Water, then came Uide Big
Horn, on which Mulligan
mysteriously chose to recreate
a big-band feeling through the
use of overdubbing. Preceding
both, though, all the way bade
in 1972, was The Age of
Steam, eight pieces arranged
for a prototype of the present
band, and now reissued in
A A M’s new series of midr
price compact discs.

The title is significant Mul¬
ligan is a steam-railway nut,
and one of the pieces here, “K-
4 Pacific”, is dedicated to the
locomotives which pulled the
long-distance express trains
through the Ohio landscape of
hi« childhood. StQl in the
band’s repertoire, it has a
lovely loose-limbed mo¬
mentum that sets up solos
from soprano saxophonist
Tom Scott and pianist Roger
Kellaway.

Harry Edison (trumpet),
Bud Shank (alto saxophone).
Bob Brookmeyer (trombone)
and Howard Roberts (guitar)
are among the soloists heard
elsewhere in the album, which

ought to be recommendation
enough. There is, of course, an
ample helping of Mulligan
himself, both on . baritone
saxophone and piano.

The late Wes Montgomery's
short series of mid-Sixties
A & M albums, in which the
producer Creed Taylor and
the arranger Don Sebesky
supported his warm guitar
tone and trademark octave
runs with gentle strings on
tunes mostly borrowed from
the pop charts of the day, are
umyenaDy held by pro¬
fessional critics to represent a
lamentable debasement of the
art of perhaps the only jazz
guitarist able to natch the
stature of Django Reinhardt.

Down Here on the Ground is
typical; yerwiule no one could
claim that it matches the
intensity and creativity of his
earlier small-group sessions, it
makes a pleasant background
noise and will no doubt
continue to give many people
some harmless pleasure. It
also made Montgomery the
good living which jazz mu¬
sicians of his talent are too
often denied.

George Benson, almost as
. gifted a guitarist, saw what had
happened to Montgomery and
determined to get some of the
rewards for himself! On Shape
of Things to Come, Sebesky’s
arrangements of tunes such as
“Last Train to Clarksville”
and “Chattanooga Choo
Choo” win infuriate purists,
despite the presence of snch
heavyweights as . the pianist
Herbie Hancock and the bass¬
ist Ron Carter, both moon¬
lighting from their somewhat
more demanding regular gjg
with Miles Davis.

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Sweet and high

pop of “Express Yourself’ is
one of those superficial neo¬
soul smgalongs with roots in
Motown and feet of day, while
“Cbfcri*” is bobbysox pop
that will doubtless give the
younger generation of Kylies a
run for their money.

But there is distinct evi¬
dence of a gathering maturity
in material like “Love Song”,
a lasciv ious s low funk work¬
out co-written with Prince,
and “Keep it Together”, a hot-
blooded up-tempo dance trade
where she explores her
thoughts about family ties
with some acuity.

I am also particularly taken
by the album’s epilogue, a
throwaway collage of atmos¬
pherics called “Act of Con¬
trition” where a wildly
distorted tapedkin-reverse gui¬
tar provides the backdrop to
Madonna's voice, solemnly
reciting a prayer then sud¬
denly bawling out a hotel
receptionist about a room
reservation. If all sounds
pretty bizarre nnri marvel¬
lously subversive.

The package comes com¬

plete with a fulsome photo¬
graphic study of Madonna's
midriff spilling out of a pair of
unbuttoned jeans on the
cover, and inside, an Aids &CT
sheet with a slogan which
makes the undeniable point
that “Aids Is No PartyT.

life, on the other hand, has
been one long party for the DJ
producer Mark Moore since
his first ever composition,
“Theme From STxpress”,
went to No 1 last year, to be
quickly followed by the Top
Ten hits “Superfly Guy” and
“Hey Music Lover”. All three
tracks are included on the
debut STxpress album Orig¬
inal Soundtrack.

The house music style of
blending sampled extracts
with a monotonous disco beat
has turned out to be one
American invention which
British acts have been able to
adapt to their own purposes. It
just seems a pity that so much
inventiveness and technical
expertise should be bent m the
service of creating mindlessly
repetitive dancefloor mantras.

David Sinclair

Ofra Harney, the 24-year-old
Canada-based Israeli cellist,
makes only infrequent visits to
Britain; bat her voice is mak¬
ing its _ impression on
the musical consciousness
through her recordings. The
latest is a winsome perfor¬
mance of Schubert's “Arpeg-
gfone” Sonata. It betrays her
time spent studying with both
Foamier and du Prfi, but the
big tone, with its light weight¬
less movement, is distinctive in

its own right.

She plays in long, deep
breaths, but with foe lightest
pressure oo the fingerboard
and only sparing vibrato: the
result is a sweet high register
and springing leaps, often
mischievously tinted by a Hint

of portamento. This gives a
sophisticated audacity to the
episodes of the final rondo
which is entirely character¬
istic.

CLASSICAL

SctHibert-Prokofiev:
“AfpecKpone" Sonatn/Sonata
Op 119Hamoy/Dussek (RCA
RD 87845}

Brahms; CeQo Sonatas in E-
miitor and F-major
Rose/Pommier (Virgin Classics
VC7 90750-2)

Brahms: The Two Cello
Sonatas Tortelier/De la Rau
(EMI COM 7 53021 2)
Rocbmaninov/Chopin: CeUo
Sonatas Tortefier/CiccoUni
(EMI COM 7 69851 2}

Mixed delights in the package: Madoam> keeps her promi ses

There is a similar noncha¬
lance behind the deep-
throated, reverberant opening
of her Prokofiev sonata. Both
Haraoy and her sensitive
pianist, Michael Dnssek,
bring oat the wide-eyed child
in the composer, relishing the
nrriiR qualities of pizzicato,
staccato and barking arco in
the slow movement. At its
heart, her starry-eyed lyricism
is worthy of Prokofiev's own

Romeo and Juliet.

Al the other end of the scale
are the last recordings of
Leonard Rose, his big-boned.

robust Brahms recordings of
Z982 now re-issued. Rose is in
many ways the Brahms player:
his large-toned, firmly con¬
trolled play with its incisive
rhythmic sequences is a match
for the near-orchestral propor¬
tions of the piano part.

Rose moves ahead with
teeth-grittmg determination
where many players would
indulge in a rest on foe way.
His balance of impetus and
expansiveness in foe first
movement of foe E-minor So¬
nata captures exactly the spirit
of its “ADegro non troppo”. I
find his second movement a
little mannered, with its exag¬
gerated rubato and Ironing
first beats forcing foe minnets
into unnecessarily coy quota¬
tion marks.

The F-major piece is almost
on the scale of a concerto.
Jean-Bernard Pommier quiet¬
ens the merely percussive in
the piano, and provides biting

entries m itd tr—f ij y* ffimdu
as each player hones fail wits.

The same two aoaafafcs mere
tackled by Peal Tertefiar ie e
1977 performance now rk
issoed, in digitally remaamd
form and at mid price, for Ua
75th birthday rrlrhratfcem
The difference in approach fi
remarkable: TorteUer’s open¬
ing of the E- min or Santa fa
like a gnat purring, its cao-
tinuatioti less aggressive fen
Rose’s,

One is more co Md e n df
exploration, and lens of the
npbow; and the second move
ment is almost faux fta

evenness and simplicity. By
contrast, the final* finwri

frith life.

Among foe Urge c eleb r at ory
Tortelier batch is foe 1968
recording of the Rachmaninov
and Chopin sonatas. The for¬
mer captures the playing of a
younger, more hgMydnag
Tortelier, who hears the So¬
nata as an intimate ******
piece, at times willing to
provide a sighing teamfl
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persuasive reading of ftty
under-estimated work.

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and Pooped Fop <r).

830 Saturday Starts Hero with Ovkte.
Ammaied adventures of a duckHUed
platypus (r).

835Rotentrt Rat Race, Taking part
this week are a team representing
HlghfieWs Junior School near
Barnsley - Wayne Bates, Scott
Atkinson and Cassandra
Hargreaves—and one representing
Fuflxoo* Middie School, Woburn
Sands- Michael Steer, Jane
Hargreaves and Sarah Doyle.

930 Going Livel with Sarah Greene
and PMp Schofield. The guests
Include Neighbours star Elaine
Smith, pop group T*Pau and the six
heat winners in the Anal of the
Young Entertainer of the Year
competition.

1230 The Gospel According to St

Matthew- The sixth of seven rams
presented by Pater Barkworth (r).
12*12 Weather,

12.15 Grandstand introduced by
Desmond Lynam. The line-up
indudes (subject to alteration}:
1230,1.10,130 and 2.10
Rowing: the build-up to and five
coverage of the Boat Race. The
commentators are Harry
Carpenter and Chris Barifieu; 1230
and 3.10 Rugby League: a
preview and live coverage of the Silk
Cup Challenge Cup semifinal

Commentary by Hay French and
Alex Murphy; 1230 News; 435
Final score.

535 News With Moira Stuart Weather
5.15 Regional news and sport

530The Flying Doctors. Chris and

Geoff help Father Jacko with a man
he finds walking along an
otherwise deserted road claiming he
has conversations with God. They
discover he is a paranoid
schizophrenic and manage to
stabilize his condition - but not
enough to satisfy the people of
Coopers Crossing who regard him as
a dangerous madman. Starring
Robert Grubb and Liz Burch.

(Ceefax)

035 JimUFhi It Among those for

whom Jimmy Savile fixes it are 10-
year-old Identical twins who learn
what it is like to be different after a
visit to the BBC make-up
department; and two other
youngsters to discover it is
possible to find a needle in a
haystack. (Ceefax)

630Little and Large. Syd's and

Eddie's guests indude Mica Paris,
Bamboozle, Marie Harper. Albert
Moses and the Naushad Sheikh
Band. (Ceefax)

7.15 Bob Says.. .Opportunity Knocks.
Talent contest introduced by Bob
Monkhouse. in which the viewers
pick the winner. Tonight's hopefuls
are Rachel Morris, a 14-year-old
comet soloist; comedy impressionist
Terry Devine; comedian Terry St
John; and singing/dancing double act
Live Wire

8.05 Cotumbo. The dishevelled

detective investigates the murder of a
playboy who wanted to sell the
family vineyards to help finance his
latest marriage. Starring Peter
Falk. Donald Please rice and Julie
Harris.

935 News and sport With Martyn
Lewis. Weather

930Carrott Confidential. The final
programme of the series in which
Jasper Carrott take a wry look at
life in general.

1035 Film: rionky Tonk Freeway (1981)
starring Beau Bridges. Beverly
D'Angelo and William Devane.
Comedy about a small Florida town
determined to become a name on
the tourist map despite not having an
exit road from the freeway. The
film also examines the comical lives
of tourists from ail over the United
States converging on the
unsuspecting townsfolk. Directed
by John Schiesmger. (Ceefax)

12.1 Oam The Gospel Acconfing to St
Matthew (r).

1230 Film: The Jericho Mile (1979)
starring Peter Strauss and Brian
Dennehy. A made-for-television
drama about Larry Murphy, a
prisoner in Folsom Prison.

California, serving a fife sentence,
who finds relaxation in running
round the prison yard. An interested
warder times him and offers him
the chance to run outside the walls—
an offer accepted that leads to a
chance of competing in the Olympics.
Directed by Michael Mann.

135 Weather.

6.00 TV-am begins with Saturday

Sport presented by Geoff Clark; 730
Wideawake for the young, with
Timmy MaKett, Michaeia Strachan
and Tommy Boyd.

935 Motormoutn includes an interview
with Kylie Minogue; music from
Brother Beyond; and Mark Shaw
ofThen Jericho ta Bung about the
group's latest video
1130 The Patridge Family. Music and
domestic comedy series 1230The
Chart Show

130 News with Fiona Armstrong.

Weather. 135 LWT News and
weather followed by Saint &
Greavsfo- Ian and Jimmy review the
week's football news ana look
forward to the weekend's
programme 130 Sportamasters.

Davies

2.10 Film: The Robe (1953) starring

Richard Burton. Jean Simmons and
Victor Mature. Drama about a
Roman soldier who outbids CaBgufa
for a Greek slave and is
transferred to Jerusalem as a
punishment He is put in charge of
the Crutifixtion ana wins Christ's
robe in a game of dice which he
then gives hts slave. Directed by
Henry Koster.

435Results Service with Elton Webby

530 News and weather 535 LWT
News and weather

930Ceefax.

1235F3m: The Greats* Story Ever

Told (1965) starring Max Von Sydow,
Dorothy McGuire and Chiton
Heston. The life of Jesus Christ that

was four years In the making.

Directed by George Stevens
3.15 Network East Shaftnaz Fatoavan
chairs a discussion on the Salman
Rushdie affair between

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B30 The Classic Movie—Gift of Love^

1030WWF Superstars of Wrestfng
*891130The Nescafe UK Top

50. „__

1230Arts Channel Programmes

starting with The Mysteries—Part 3:
The Doomsday

235One Summer Again - Part 3
330 The Polka Children's Theatre
330 Landscape Channel
Programmes from Sky.

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10.10 The ram Club: Lous Malle in

America. Don Boyd introduces two
films about the American way of
life beginning with Alamo Bay (1985)
starring Amy Madigan, Ho
Nguyen ana Ed Harris. The story of a
Vietnam refugee in a Texas town
where resentment against toe
immigrants is high.

1130 God's Country (1985). A portrait
of a small farming community in
Minnesota where 80 per cent of
the 5.000 population are of German
descent Ends at 135am.

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630Earthfile

730 Beyond 2000 830 Earfhffie.

930 The Best of VWd West End 1030
Earthfile 1130 Our World
1230Beyond 2000
130 Motor Sports230The Best of

Wild West End 330 Our World 430
Earthfile

530The Reporters630The Best of
WUd West End 730 Beyond 2000
830The Best of the Frank Bough

Interview930The Reporters 1030
The Best of Target 1130 Motor
Sports News

1230am The Best of Wild West End

130 The Best of Target230The

Best of the Frank Bough
Interview330The Reporters
430Motor Sports530 Fashion TV.

SKY MOVIES

4.15pm The Gray Fox (1882).

Released from prison after a 33-year
speu in prison, a stage-coach
robber deckles to move with the
tones and rob trains instead.

630 W.W. &The Dixie Danceldnga

(1975). A con-man teams up with a
struggling country-western group
and endeavours to make them
famous. With Burt Reynolds, Art
Camay and Ned Beatty. Directed by
John Avildsen

830Enemy Mine (1985). ft tel 00 years
from now ana two mortal space
enemies are stranded on a barren
planet forced to make friends or die
in the attempt to stay enemies.

With Dennis Qua id and Louis Gosset
Jnr. Directed by Wolfgang
Petersen

1030Certain FUry (1985). Tatum

O'Neal, recently acclaimed in The
Accused, stars in another
courtroom drama, this time about two
defendants who are pursued by
police after a bizarre murder during a
trial. With Irene Cara and Peter
Fonda. Directed by Stephen
Gytienhaai

1130 Thne Walker (1983). Science

fiction thriller In which an alien buried
in King Tufs tomb finds Its way
out onto a college campus. Directed
by Tom Kennedy

EUROSPORT

1030am Rugby Union 1230pm Ski
Flying

230 Basketball 330Wtorld Figure
Skating Championships
430 Preview of Eurosport

Programmes

630pm Mazda's Eye on Sport
730The University Boat Race
830Ski Jumping 930 Rugby League
Midnight Close.

pap

630am MTV)

4.00p m US Top 20 Countdown 630
Week in Rock

630 Remote Control 730MTVs

Metal Hammer830 Club MTV 830
Party Zone.

330pm Ruby & Oswald
435 Locke The Superman
630 Sharing Richard 8.10 Pretty In
Pink

935The Twilight Zone (Ep .74) 10.15
Heartbreakers

1130 The Fly 130 And Then You Die
235Close.

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RADIO 3

• Though set very much ia the 1980s, am
reflecting such contemporary thanes as.-fa
invasion of Britain by Japanese business,
Ray Connolly’s Defrosting the Fridge
(BBC2, tomorrow, 10.05pm) is remmisaag
of the Ealing comedies of 40 years ago. it®
essentially a portrait of English eccentric^
(trying to play American football) and
culture clash between the stubbornly
ditional locals and a foreigner from a
the Atlantic who wants to shake things
Connolly's script interweaves three i
meats: the football team, the worst'
Britain; the focal Japanese frozen
company which is prevailed upon to sponsor
it; and a new coach drafted in fronr Ute
United States to crack the whip. Played-fy,
the burly Joe Don Baker, with the same
compulsive watch ability that he showed ar
his previous BBC drama. Edge of
foe coach tries to talk tough but is gemjr
undermined at every turn. While one of lip;
tram runs a huge American car, he has
make dp with a rickety Tricycle.“Yon Engl
really get to me,” he complains, as the teas) :
crumples to yet another defeat. Meanwhile,
the sponsor - is becoming impatient “if tig-
team fens, F shall be disgraced in the,
company”, wails tittle Mr Hiroto, the &$.
fish boss. Attractively filmed on location
the Suffolk coast. Defrosting the Frit
niafcgs a welcome change from the gritty
grim and socially-conscious dramas that
make up so much of television’s output '.ff .

• Claimed to be the world’s first ecological-
musical, Yanomamo is an impassioned
to stop the destruction of the
rainforest in Brazil. Commissioned by —_,
World Wide Fund for Nature and written,byib
two I encash ire teachers, Peter Rose (mnst&;
and Anne Conlon (words), it has bea^;
performed by schoolchildren throughout
Britain. Last year, with the rock star Sti*
lending his celebrity support, the chiMeur,
took the production to New York. Ng*. (
comes a television version. Song of ft*
Forest (Channel 4, tomorrow, 7.I5pmX iff
which a performance by pupils
Lancashire school is intercut with dog*:
mentary footage from the threatened arja&
The first half is a celebration of the forest, ftfe;
trees, its animals, the river that flows throigfc
its heart and the Yanomamo Indians wfeiftr
have lived there for 20,000years. The secoafe
part charts the desecration of the forest tag
road builders, migrant fanners and mult)-;-
national companies. The blend of wonf^

RADIO 4 f

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Peter Davalle

• McCartney on McCartney
(Radio !. 2.00pm) runs for
eight hours, at one hour a
week. Therefore, there can’t be
any excuse if something vital
is left out. Pan one makes it
clear that even the minutia in
the life of the song-writing
Beatle wiil come in for close
scrutiny. Today, for example,
in a flashback to his
schooldays. he recalls writing
an essay about his passion a;
the time, pot-holing, and his
first experience of the cinema
canoodle. To be honest, there
is not much promise of future

VNFStoneSMW

News cn pie tea-hour from
1230pm. then a:230.330,
530. 730. 930ana 1230

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630am SrM N' Mark 1030
Da/e Lee Travs 1.00pm Adrian
Juste 230 McCartney on
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1030Cbtere Rock 1230-
230am The Satertay Rock Show

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730pml&MW

News cr. trie hour trrrrit
1.00pm. then at 3.00.630,730
ant hourly Irmn 1030
Heailrtes 6.3 0 a m . 730
430am Cave Bussey 630
Graham Krcm 835 Ronme Hilton
9.00 Sounds cl the 60s 1030
Anra Rsetium 1230Gerald
Haroer 130jMff The .News
HudOLres 130 Sport On 2, ind
13SP Un-.iers.-ty Boat Rase
230pm and the 330and 435
raaes from Kenrpton 530
Sports Report 630Cinema 2 630
Sam Cooke 730 Pop Score
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Messah in Brass9301989
BBC FestwaJ o* Gospel Music
1035 Marwi Kelner 1235am
Nrfi Owls 130 Nghtode 330-
430 A LitSe tactit Music

TfiTTTTttl psriMrl n

730 Morning Concert. Franck
(Le Chasseur maudit Basle
SO under Amwi Jordan):

Brahms (Ballade m D minor.
Op 10 No 1. Edward:
Stephan Bishop-
Kcvacevich. piano): Delius
(A Song before Sunrise:
RPO under Thomas
SeechamJ; &t>y&us
(Nightrrde and Sunrise. Op
55: SNO under Alexander
Gibson); Liszt (Mazeppa.
Transcendental Studies:
Claudio Arrau, piano);
Rossini (Overture: Wfiam
Tell: National PO under
Riccardo ChatBy)

730 News

8.15 The Week on 3. Presented
by Douglas Rerih
830 News

835 Orlando OuarteL Haydn
(Quartet in C. C^J 74 No 1).
Mozart <Quartet in C. K465)
(Dissonance) (r)

930 Saturday Review.

Introduced by Richard
Osborne. Record Review:
B««*nqa Library.

. Shostakovich s Tenth
Symphon y by John
Werrack. Nxtooias Kenyon
on new releases of
Monteverdi's Vespers and

Tans Sacred Music. Record
release: Taffia: Gaude
glonosa d» mater; Spem in

alium (Taverner Consort and

Taverner Chrw under
Andrew Rarrart); Peter
Phibps: Dotcnsa Pavan and
Gafiaitf; Enafiode'

Cavakwl, hit Philips: Aria

del Gran Ouca Ferdmando
di Toscana: Bassano. an-
PhiCps: Pavan and Ganterd
(Parley of Instruments}.
WWtow: Tfcuie. the Period
of CfcsnragrapiM: O Care.
Thou WUt Dispatch Me
(Hfflard Ensemble under
Paul HAer}-. Peter Philips:
Passamezzo Pavan and
Oaftazd (Emer Buckley,
harpstchord)

130 News

135 Tfwd Ear. Taking issue.

Chaired by Paul Barker
130 Bach's *&. The sixth of eight
pro g r am me s with pianist
Anores Schdf playing
Bach's We3-Tetnoered
Cfehrter Book 2: Preludes
and Fugues m f mmor: A
fiat major; B Hat m m o r C
sharp major. D sharp (nnoc
F^iarpnueor(r)

3.10 From the Prams. 1988.
JohannWagenaar
(Overture Twelfth Night);
Shostakovich {Cedo
Concerto No 2):

Tchaikovsky (Symphony No
4 m F mmorj. Pertormed tv
AmswtdOT Concenwftnuw
Orchestra under Rvxardo
Chaffly won Lynn Htoren

(cetafiW

335 Allegri String Quartet

Stravinsky: Three Pieces for
string quartet Debussy:
Quartet in G mmor (r)

430 Debut. Punist Cofei Stone
performs Bach, transc
Busoni: Chaconne m D
mmor. and Chopin: Baflada
No4nF minor

530Jazz Record Requests, vwm
Peter Clayton

535 Critics' Forum. Weekly
discussion on cinema,
broadcasting and the visual
arts. Shendan Moriey talks
to Gilbert Adair. Andrew
Grahan Dixon and Peter
Porter about Terry Giftam's
film The Adventures of
Boron Munchausen. A Uttta
Oka Orownvw by Anthony
Mmghetta on Radio 4,
pamtmqs and sculptures by
Dieter Hacker at
Marmorough Fme Art Ltd,
Daniel Day-Lewis's latest
role as Hamlet at the
National Theatre, end
William Golding's novel. Fie
Down Below

635 Bach's 48. The seventh of
eight programmes. Book 2:
Preludes and Fugues m G
sharp minor B major; C
sharp minor, E major. F
sharp n u nor; A major (rj

730 Showboat. Mark Steyn
introduc e s the musmal by
Jerome Ketn and Oscar
Hammerstein U. after the
novel Dy Etoia Ferber.
Original orchestrations by
Robert Russefl Bennett.

With Frednca Von Stade as
Mayioha Hawks. Jerry
Haoey as Gaylord Ravenal,
Teresa Stratas as Jt6e
LaVeme and Brace
Hubbard as Joe. PBrtonnad
by Ambrosian Chorus aid
London Sinf o nietta under
JohnMcGCnn

10-15 The Master-Thief, By Ptoer
Redgrave. The fifth of six
plays drawn from Grimm 's
Fairy Tales. A wealthy
stranger returns to fkS
homeland. With James
Kerry as the Master Thief.
Muse composed and
■roused by Stephen
Roitaigs. Directed tw Brian
Miter (r)

1130 Langfian Chamber

Orchestra. James Lockhart
conducts Vancura-. Ov«ture
to Sokolovsky's Mifler-
Magician. Cheat and
Mamage-Broker: Rubinstein
arr Lyadov: Five Pieces for
Orchestr a ; Prokofiev:
Symphony No 1 mD
(Classical) (r)

1135 Heaven upon Earth. David
Mefimg describes Holy

weak at the Greek
Orthodox Patri a rcha te in
Constantinople.

1230 News 1235 CfoW

LW IS) on VHF

535am Shipping Forecast
630 News Ktefing:
Weather 6.10 TheTamting
Week: Alan Wright talks to
he predecessors and
recalls 60 years of
agricultural broadcasting
630 Prayer for the Day
635 Weather 7.00 Today:
Presented by Peter Hobday
and Sue MacGregor, ind
730, 730. 830830
News 735,638 Weather
930 News

935 Sport On 4 with Cliff Morgan
930 Breakaway: Travel and

hoWay news with Bernard
Falk and Chantol Cuer
taking in tee sights at Paris,
while Susan Marling
explores the hotels
1030 News: Loose Ends with Ned
Shamn. Robert Elms. Crtug
Charles and Victoria Mather
1130 News; The Week in

Westminster with Peter
Jenkins, Associate Editor of
The Independent
1130 From Our Own
Correspondent

1230 Money Box with Louise
Bolting

1235pm Bea c hco mb er. J3y the
Way: Comedy series
starring Richard Ingrams,
John Weis. Patrician
Routtedge and John

Sessions, adapated from
the writings of J B Morton
(s) 1235 Weather
130 News

1.10 Any Questions? Jonathan
Donbieby in Churston.

Devon with panelists

Bshop Hugo Montefiore,
Joan Lester MP. author

Frederick Raphael and
Chnstoher Sana chairman
Of LWT and Century
Hutchinson (r) 135
Shipping Forecast
230 Nows; Any Answers? 01-580-
4411. An opportunity for
listeners to nng Jonathan
DiinHeby with opinions on
fids week's Any Questions?
230 Clouds: Play by Michael
Frayn starring Oinsdde
Landen, Morag Hood and
Paul Chapman (s) M
430 News: A Year of Dying

Dangerously: Hurti Srysor-
Jones presents the second,
of five programmes on
heimcioe, ir» which he gives
an over-view of the murders
committed in the UK In
1988: (2) The Scene (r)

430Science Now at the

Rutherford: Peter Evans
reports from the Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory cm a

machine which examines
the structure of tfqtods,
magnets and
superconductors
530 Visinng Lives: Biographer
Claire TomaKn tmks abo
her work (s) (r) ■ . .

535 A Breed Apart Reporters^*
NeU Walker and David1/, r-
Dayton Bnk up with BBC
Local Radio stations to viat
animal sanctuaries (first ’
broadcast as Hie Local
Network) 530 Shipping ^r-
Forecast 535 Weather -
630 News: Sports Roundup :
635 Citizens: By Scott Cherrys .i i'
Omnibus edition (s) ycr,
7.10 Stop The Week with RobtoC.j
Robinson (s)

735 Saturday-Night Theatre:

Song atTwfllght by NoSILfu
Coward. With Michael - v,
Denison as Hugo Latyroer, '
Jin Bennett as Fade and
Dulde Gray as Cartottajft J -
couples' marriage is
under considerable sir^^E
the rcrium from the past
si ex-mistress (s) (r) .Mte

9.15 Music in Mind with Richto^B

Baker (s) ; EM

930 Ten to Terr A reading. hw!&
and reRection led by Ed
Neale (s) 939 Weather —

10 .00luoufc 'y ■

10.15 The Saturday Feat u re:~4era
Search of Margaret a**®
A vokime of nature i
full of visual images,
capored their —

Ted Watson, a
for the Royal S
Company. He settftem&S
music, then set out to find*

the poet with nothing

on but her name and a mew
MgeJ Forte retraces TetfSCT
footsteps and vfsfis the-W *
Wind poet Margaret BucM^f
now In her 80s, at her bert*
in Yorkshire (see Choiceh i
1035 The C art oonist s: Frank * i.
VMtfOrt] in comersalion s
with Michael Heath (s) Wfte
1130 Simon's Bug: Last of foo^r

part oomic cramatizatiadiiy.
Richard Quick of htebodttr.

the same title. Staring
Hywel Bennett, AEson -ir ■ t ~
Steadman and Fkaamaryi-,f
Leach (s)

1130 The MftSon-Pound Racfio"\
Show: Comic sketches
written and presented by-, v •
Andy Hamilton and Nick ..«*•
Revel (s) r\L-

1230-I230am News, ind iwf.
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Peter Waymark

i-pp^lusic and image is consistently successfixL
i^fanomamo is a considerable piece in its own
Mj^ght, incorporating a variety of musical
'.-rjtr j^ryies and giving strong parts to both chorus
* ■ tj^nd soloists. The words are often felicitous,
~..: 3 ,^ ;s in “the jawbones of piranhas are the
. ^nives for our bananas”. The footage of the
.‘.--i the Yanomamo people and the

. 1 ,^Rs that are threatening them adds an

•'‘‘'xua dimension. The message is uneqnivo-
iafc'ihai the greatest forest on earth and one
; fihe world's richest ecosystems is being
acrificed in the dubious name of progress. I
\crnot know whether works ofart can change
. V linds but this one has the passion and
. v, ‘incerity to do so, if only those concerned are
Prepared to listen.

. " " ■»!• am sure that stranger things have
../happened in the cinema but there seems
; ' omething perverse in filming a classic of
__ - ; terature rooted in the very soil of England
. " rith French locations, a Pohsh director and a
German star. But Tess (BBC2, tomorrow,
. 20 pm) was blighted by fete as almost as
: : Relentlessly as the characters in Thomas
'• lardy’s story. The director, Roman
" ’olanski, was prevented from filming in
.England as a consequence of his troubles
' ■ -viih the American courts over a rape charge.

• ' fortunately, the landscape of Brittany
’’-- Tojed to he a more tlan adequate
'wBoximation to Hardy’s Wessex. Then,

■ ■ — ■arc of the way through shooting, the
. \ distinguished British cameraman, Geoffrey
Jnsworth, died. But again Polanski was
-jtcfcy with his substitute, the Frenchman
- . r.whi slain Coquet Unsworth and Coquet
. ...hared the Oscar for best cinematography;

; other Oscars went to the art direction and
. - costume design. After Polanski’s bloody and
c ontroversial Macbeth, his second excursion
.. rnto the English classics proved to be
surprisingly respectful, staying close to the
v ioVefs structure, mood and dialogue. Some
_:^ritics felt he had been too reverential, to the

- • 7 : noSst even of dullness. But if the film misses

- •• r. -ofcfc of the subtleties of Hardy’s writing it
. ’ i-.-ffifers a feast of visual images and an

-paredBent per fo rm a nce from Nastassia
.tihski, whose Tess is all the more impres-
_ ."-.itfe given her then inexperience as an actress
. /.inft jinfamflinr ity with the English l anytmga .

T4W The Sleepins Princess. An

animated story

7,40 The Phantom TroehouML

Animated fantasy film about a boy
and his dog who discover a

I Lucy

835 Pfaybus with Eithne Harwigan and
Simon Davies (rL 9.15 The Fox end
the Hare OJMIlimbreHa. Mufti-
faith series for the young presented
by Mark Ctiaaerton. Christians in
Southwell, Manchester and

Sketaersdate use symbols to
bring to Die the events of 2,000 years
ago.

835 Sunday Worship. Ilia Easter

Liturgy from Peterborough Cathedral
1130 Ufbi et OrbL Live coveraga of the
Pope's traditional Easternessing,
described by Mgr Vincent
Nichols.

1130 The Gospel AcconSng to St

Matthew. Peter Sarkworth with the
last of seven rams frt,

1130 Take Nobody’s Word Fbrtt. The
last in the science soles presented
by Carol Vorderman and
Professor Ian Fens (r). 1235 Sign
Extra. A programme about the
problems facing people who rtto
fairgrounds, adapted tor the
hearing-impaired.

1230 Country FBe. Ian Breach

investigat es the workings of the

mini star for Agriculture, and the

shadow spokesman. Dr David
Clarke, review the ministry's
history and contemplate its future.
With comment from Sir Richard
Body, MP, and agricultural journalist
Barry Wilson. 1235Weather
130 News with Moira Stuart
135 The “Olympic” Challenge.

HtghfigMs from the VIII Paralympic
Games, introduced by Cliff

Morgan (r).

230Eastcndars. Omnibus edition (r).
(Ceefax)

330Film: Ofivert (I960) starring Ron
Moody, Oliver Reed and Harry
Secombe. Six Oscars-winning
musical version ol Charles Dickens's
novel Oliver Twistwtnch told the
tale of a young orphan boy who fans
into bad company before being
rescued by ins relations. Directed by
Carol Reed. (Ceefax)

530The Clothes Show reports from
Northern Ireland on flax farming and
the designers who use linen tor
their high fashion garments
535The Animals Roadshow. In this

first of a new series Desmond Morris
meets actress Susannah York
with her three dogs and three cats;
and Sarah Kennedy is in
Brentwood for the world’s only
Working-Dog Convention.

(Ceefax)

•30 News with Moira Stuart Weather
635Songs of Praise from

Westminster Cathedral. (Ceefax)

7.15 Laura and Disorder. The final
pro g ramme of the comedy series

divorced middl aged^ro man who
seems to be forever surrounded
in chaos. Tonight the intrepid Laura
invests m a metal detector and
unearths more trouble than treasure.
(Ceefax)

735 Mastermind introduced by
Magnus Magnusson from
Cheltenham Ladies' College. The
spedafist subjects are: communism
to Eastern Europe since IMS;
Dorothy Wordsworth; Isambard
Kingdom Brunei; and Cheltenham
to Roman times.

8.10 FSm: Witness for the Prosecution
(1982) starring Ralph Richard so n,
Deborah Kerr and Diana Rigg. A
made-for-tetevision version of
Agatha Christie's courtroom
drama about a man accused of
murder who seems condemned
by his wife’s evidence. Directed by
Alan Gtoson. (Ceefax)

930 News with Martyn Lewis. Weather
1035Heart of the Matter Is Life Worth
Living?—That Depends on the
Liver!The story of artist John
BeHany whose liver disease forced
him to confront the possibility of
an early death
1030KBroy in the Holy Land. HigMMtts
from last week's three Middle East
discussion programmes
presented by Robert Kikoy^SH
1130 Handmade. Home crafts

programme presented by Sue
Robinson. Last to the series (r).

1130 The Gospel According to St
Matthewfr).

1230Network East A repeat of

yesterday's programme on the
Salman Rushdie affair.

1830am W«

030TV-am begins with children's
programmes presented by David
Yates and George Spanswick.

830Arms Diamond on Sunday.

Current affairs and a review of the
day's national newspapers.

835 Motormouth on Sunday.

presented by Julian BaRantyne and
Caroline Hanson, includes
Fraggta Bock, starring Simon
O'Brien.

1035Ltok. The story of Sue Read, a

diabetic who. after the death of her
father when she was aged 12.
became cflsturbed and was sent to a

mental institution for a two week

period which was extended to one of
five and a half years.

1130 Morning Worship from the

Roman Catholic Cathedral Church of
Our Lady and St PhiSp Howard,
Arundel. Sussex

1230Encounter with Richard HoBoway.

Bishop of Edinburgh, who faces up to
his own death by remembering
the first Easter, which, he says
proves that death cannot be the
end.

1230A Cttucktewood Easter. A

cartoon story tor children (r). 1230
LWT News and weather

130 News with Fiona Armstrong.

Weather

1.10 The Light of the WOricL John
Ha las teds the story of how
Christianity began using both
traditional art and comfHJter-
generated images. The words are
spoken by Robin BUs and Maurice
Denham and the music written by
Richard Ameti and Dave Hewson.

130 Watt Ksoey Presents. Cartoon
double Wl230Coronation Street
Omnibus edition (r).

330The Match. Live coverage of the
game at White Hart Lane between
Spurs and Liverpool, introduced
by Elton Weisby with commentary by
Alan Parry.

533 Bufiseye. Darts and general

knowledge quiz game presented by
Jim Bowen.

535 Sunday Sunday. Gloria

Hunmord's guests are American
raconteur Jackie Mason and Alan
Bates and Felicity Kendal who will be
seen soon to the West End
playing in Chekov's Ivanov.

•30 News and weather635LWT
News and weather

630Highway. Sir Harry Secombe

visits the Vale of Glamorgan. Among
the people he meets is the former
Welsh rugby union international
J. P. R. Williams

7.15 SearcMine SpectaL alia Black

continues her weekend campaign to
bring together long-lost friends
area relatives.

830 Forever Green. John Alderton and
Pauline Collins star in the
environmental drama series as a
couple who move to the country from
the city tor the sake of their
child's health. This week the family,
apart from young Freddy, is
struck down with ulcers and
headaches. Lady Patrida offers a
sinister reason for their cfiscomfort
(Oracle)

930An Audience WHh Victoria Wood.

A repeat of the BAFTA award
winning best light entertainment
programme in which Victoria Wood
regales her invited audience with
witty monologues and sometimes
sad songs

1030Sear-chime Special Update with
CUla Black

10.15 Floyd on TV. Keith Floyd presents
another selection of television
programme oddities from around

thp tunrlti

1035News and weather 1035 LWT
Weather

1130 Hale & Pace. Comedy sketches
starring Gareth Hale 8nd Norman
Pace(r).

1130 Film: Moment By Moment (1978)
starring Lily Tomlin and John
Travolta. A frustrated housewife,
aware of her husband's affair with a
younger woman, is reluctant to
retaliate even when pursued by a
persistent admirer. Directed by
Jane Wagner.

130 The Chart Show (r). Followed by
NewsheadRnes

230The Other Side of Midnight With
Sonic Youth, ishmae! Reed and an
item on mods and rockers

330Pick of the Week. Highlights Of
programmes from the regions

330American Documentary.The

story of Eco-City Davis, the model
town founded 10 years ago by

students of Davis University in

California

430HHlwy's Adventures. Glacier
□tots and float planes.

530ITN Morning News. Ends at630.

930 Ceefax.

835 FUne Jungle Book (1942) starring
Sabu and Joseph Cafleia. Based on
The Jungle Books of Rudyard

Kipling, me story of a young boy
growing up m me nmgie who is
adopted by wolves. Directed by
Zottan Korda

II30 FHmj Captain Horatio HornMower
(1951) starring Gregory Peck and
Virginia Mayo. Adventure stsry
based on three of C. S. Forester
novels about the British naval
hero of the Napoleonic wars.

Directed by Raoul Walsh
130 40 Ittwtas: Wedding at
Eastogeon (r). (Ceefax)

230The Kbqv Batiet in London. A

revised repeat of last summer's Sve
transmission of the Kirov Better*
Gala Perf or mance from London's
Business Design Centre, the
Kirov's first visa to London tor 18
years- With the Wren Orchestra
conducted by Vfttor Fedotov. The
progr am me also includes
interviews with Natafia Makarova and
the Kirov's artistic dtrecor Cleg
Vinogradov.

430Rugby Special introduced by
Chris Rea. HtghSghts from
yesterday's PtUongton Cup
semifinals between Gloucester and

Bath; and Harlequins v Leicester.
530 Film: Tees (1979). (Ceefax) (see
Choice)

835 Soto Conducts Bartcrik. tn this first
of two programmes Sir Georg Solti

conducts the London
Philharmonic in a performance of his
fellow Hungarian's Concoco tor

Orchestra.

8.10 Brazilian Grand Prtx. Highlights of
today's race In Rio de Janeiro, me

first in the world championship.

The commentators are Murray

Walker and James Hunt
935The Cry of Joy. Jewish composer
Robert Saxton cele b rates the

happiest day in the Christian
calendar with a work scored for 30

Instruments played by the BBC
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by
Lionel Friend

1035Screen Two: Defrosting the

Fridge (1988). (Ceefax) (see Choice)
1130 FBm: Bed Day at Black Rock

(1955) starring Spencer Tracy and
Robert Ryan. Suspense story
about a one-armed man who arrives

in the remote town of Black Rock

where his enquiries into a missing

man are met with hostflitv. With
Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Walter
Brennan and Dean J agger.

Directed by John Sturges.

1235ara Snob. DEFIls alternative

music series. Appearing tonight are

Ben Sherman, the Godfathers and

New Order. Ends at 1.30.

935Movie MariaL Programme five of
the 17-part story oi the Indian cinema
industry

1030 The World This Week. A repeat of
yesterday's international affairs
programme 1130 Rob’s
Programme for children. The guest is
Charlie Williams ir).

1130 Worse! Gummidge Down Under.

Jon Pertwee stars as the animated
scarecrow 1230The Waltons.
Adventures cf an Appalachian
mountain family during me
Depression years.

130 Lost in Space. Episode 25 of me
vintage science fiction series
2.00 Afy Etoin & Friends. For this last
) programme of his senes, the

Shetland fiddler is joined by
Scottish clarsach player Savouma
Stevenson; Clive Gregson and
Christine Co!lister from England; and
from Cajun country, Louisiana
Queen ica and the Bon Temps
Zydeco Band

235 The Modem World: Ten Great

Writers. Pari six -T. S. Eliot and his
Tne waste Land{t\.

3.55 Big World Cafe. Pop music series
435 News summary and weather.

530 Film; The Road to Hong Kong

(1962. b/w) starring Bob Hope and
Bmg Crosby. Comedy about two
vaudeville dancers looking to make
their fortunes in the Orient but
managing only to attract the
attentions of the local police and a
criminal mastermind. Directed by
Norman Panama
635The Cosby Show.

7.15 Fragile Earth: Song of the Forest
(Oracle) (see Choice)

8.15 Missa Gaiactica. A performance
of Janacek's choral work by the
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
and Chorus, conducted by Vaclav
Neuman, recorded in me Church

cf St Kliment in Prague. The featured
soloists are Gabriele Beneckova

(soprano), Drahomira Drobkova

taltci. Joseph Kundlak (tenor) and

Sergei Kopcak (bass) with Jan Hora

on tne organ

9.15 Film: The Great Gatsby (1974)
starring Robert Bedford and Mia
Farrow. Drama, based on F. Scctt

Fitzgerald's novel set in 1930s Long

Island about a social climber and
nis affair with a selfish married
woman. Directed by Jack Clayton
1130S<nfonietta. The London

Srnfonietta, conducted by David
Atherton, perform Ofivier
Messiaen's Colours of the Celestial
City(r).

1235am Film: Forbidden (1932. b/w)

starring Barbara Stanwyck as a staid
librarian who has an affarr with a
married politician. Directed by Frank
Capra. Ends at 2.10.

SKY CHANNEL

doth WALES: 1SL4Sam-1SLS0 News and
ESSii weather SCOTLAND: 10OSpm-1040 Tho

Quest Trust the Process NORTHERN UtELANDc

lZ40pHt.12te5Tomonow s Farm 9LO8-U0 A Taste

of Ireland

ANGLIA A» London •xcoptnSLOOpm- 1.00

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SJS 6.30 Coronation Street 11.00 Prisoner 1240

Hodson Confidential lUOaraMvstary Theatre 1.00

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Hit Mn end Her.

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114WK2 - Tnumpn and Tragedy 1200 Fleetwood

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1140Cnme Does Not Pay 1140 Smforaetta 1245am
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FaaneTale Theatre 34M Dafty Duck's 345Fim:

Blondie'EHokday’(ArthurLake)445Film Easter

Promise (Jason Rooaids. Jean Svnmons) 84)0 News

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(Ronald Col man) 148am News. Closedown.
NETWORK 2 Start* 11-40mn tush In Mind

WC 1 . yr* I \ - € 1240POI News 1244 Sports
Stadium 5.10 Meltdown 64M Easter Egg845Family
Ties 645 Haacht 7.00 Man Who Wants to C8mc4
ON WoiM 740 Tracey Utaian Show B.DO Tlie

Hfamrable* B15 FHins^The Derk Crystal (Am

H e nson ) 1000 Tale from the Dot* Side 10 JO

Circuit Report 11.15 Easter VJsH 1 .OOam

530am Bailey's Bird630 Hour of
Power

730 Fun Factory 1130 Sriefl
international Motor Sports
1230 Mobil Motor Sports News
1230 Fashion TV

130 Sunday Movie Matinee-The

Little Ark

330 Beyond 2000

430 Pop Formulae 530Joenie Loves
Ctiacrii

530 Eight is Enought830 Dolty 730
Family Ties

830 My Fair Lady 1130

Entertainment This Week
1230 Arts Channel Programmes from
Sky starting with Madame Butterfly
330 Laiique Glass

330 Landscape Channel Programmes
from Sky.

SKY NEWS

News on the hour
830am Sky News Sunrise Edition

630 The Best of me Frank Bough
Interview 730 Roving Report
830 Eartfitile

930The Wall St Journal 1030
Fashion Television

1130 Our World 1230pm The Easter
Editors 130 The Wall SL Journal
230 Roving Report
330 Our World 430 Earth file
530 Entertainment This Week 630
Entertainment This Week 730
Fasrnon Television

830 The Easter Editors 930 Meet the
Press

1030 Face the Nation 1130 The Wall

St. Journal 1230am Entertainment
This Week 230 Fashion
Television

330 Roving Report 430 Earthfiie
530 Meet The Press.

SKY MOVIES

435pm Ladyhawke (19B5). Medieval
fantasy about a pair of lovers who
are alternately transformed into a
wolf and hawk at different times of
me day. Wrth M 2 tmew Broderick,
Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Directed by Richard Dormer.

6.10 Project X (I9e7). Matthew

Broderick again, this time In a bizarre
adventure about an airforce pilot
working with chimpanzees as part of
his top secret military training. By
befriending one of them he teams the
truth behind the dangerous
Project X. Directed by Jonathan
Kaplan.

1030 Mother Lode (1982). Director of
the film Chariton Heston stars as a
greedy gold miner who will stop at
nothing to get his hands on some
mountain gold. Also with Nick
Mancusa and Kim Basinger.

830 Summer Lovers (1982). A Greek

holiday results in a menage a trots for
an adventurous couple who meet
up with e French archaeologistiFrom
the director of Grease and The
Blue Lagoon. Randal Kleiser, starring
Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah
and Valerie Quennessen.

EUROSPORT

1030am Mazda's Eye on Sport 1130
The University Boat Race 1230pm
Ski Jumping 230Rugby
League

430 Preview of Eurosport
Programmes

630 Eurosport—What A Week! 7.00
Brazilian Grand Prix

930Ski Jumping 1030Super
Magazine

1130 Rugby Union MKtbuBht Close.

MTV

630am MTV! 1030VJ Marcel
Vanthift

1.00pm MTV's European Top20230
VJ Ray Cokes

330Week In Concert 430MTV
Classics

530 VJ Ray Cokes 630 XPO 730
Kino830 MTV Spotlight
9.00 VJ Kristiane Backer 1030 Night
Videos.

PREMIERE

330pm The Care Bears 2 — A New
Generation

4.15 The Karate Kid II635
Sledgehammer (Ep.17)

630Gremloids 830 Static 935
Hollywood Insider (Ep.12)
1030BJindside 1130 John and the
Missus

130 Aliens 330Close.

RADIO OOCEp)

Peter Davalle

; : * Radio 4 today (12.15pm)
I - -steals an edition of Desert
■ sfend Discs about which
•'j’.nore readers have written to
•; :;.ne than any I have ever
V ^commended. It is with Al-
red Wainwright, celebrated
• ; ^.' rudger across lakeland fells.
=j£-.le is possibly the most
s -diosynchratic castaway this
. - jrograrame has had to deal
' with. He prefers silence to
- nusic, which cannot have
u -n nade it easy for the producer
/ ' if a programme with a high
^-misical content. All he wants
~;. l m his desert island by way of

(R4, 12J5pm)

' luxury is a fi«h and chip
' j^'.VAbop, and Sue Lawley tells
; • ;,ium there won’t be one. He
• ‘^Sftqects the offer of a favourite
in favourofasnap ofhis
‘ -’^ ^ccond wife and a photograph
; J of the Blacktara Rovers team
'i that won the FA. Oip in 1928.
< His obsession with walking
'■ . ft ted to his first wife (and dog)
. -,v>walking oat on him after 30
^ri"years. He has, he says, a stntfe-
mind, and is totally
■ ,. ,T^ware of how strangely that
w --^fCQjnment sits on a man who,
t M Bis guide books, has prob-
^jj^ably offered fellow fbo^QS"
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330 Ptitfilp SchofleW 430 Pop
of the Form430Chartbusters
530 Top40 730Hie Anne
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Soil Train 1130-230Scott
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News on the hour (except

8 . 00 pm)

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David Allan 630

You ‘_

Greats 130pm The BBty
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Green 330 Alan DeH 430

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Dancing Years 830 Sunday half-
hour 930 Your Hundred Bast
Times 1036 Songs from the
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730 Bach: Played by Peter

Hurford on the organ of the
Domkirche, St Paten,
Austria. The last of seven
programmes. Prelude in E
flat (BWV 552a)-. Chorale
preludes: Aus tiefer Not
schrei' icri zu dir (BWV 686);
Jesus Chrisfus unser
KeHand (BWV 688): Fugue
in E flat (BWV 552b) (r)

730 News

735 Smetana Quartet (new
series): First of six
programmes featuring the
work of this quartet,
founded 45 years ago and
undertakingas flnafconcert
tour this year. Jiri Novak
(viotei), Lunomir Kostecky
(violin), Milan Skampa (viola)
and Antonin Kohout (cello)
perform Haytto's String
Quartet in D. Op 64 No 5
(Lark); Martino's Madrigal
No 2. for violin and viola;
Smetana's String Quartet
No 1 in E minor [From My
Life)

830 News

839 Your Concert Chofca:

G retry, air Beecham (Ballet
music: ZAmire et Azon RPO
under Thomas Beecham);
Quantz (Horn Coneaio No
3 in E fiat: Acsdemy of St
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BOOKS

Voyage
to her
father

Fiona MacCarthy follows Germaine
Greer on a journey of discovery

A fter dinner at St John’s
in Cambridge the Mas¬
ter beckons Dr Ger¬
maine Greer to come
and sit beside him.
They imbibe the college burgundy.
They talk about Intelligence, the
Master’s special subject, and with
an ancient gesture, paternal arid
approving, be puts his arthritic
band upon her wrist, knocking off
the little pile of scented snuff she
has been sniffling slowly up into
her nostrils. “This young
woman,” he says, beaming, “has
read my book.”

All tbe old men in the world
think of themselves as Germaine's
Daddy, all except her real father,
who apparently disowned her. He
belittled her achievements. She
was cut out of bis
will. Worst of all,
be never hugged
her. This she ter¬
ribly resented,

and her adult life_

is haunted by a ■ ■■

sequence of small images of
infants dinging, cradled, almost
welded to their fathers. Deep
resentment underlay her urge to
trace her father's history. It started
as a quest and it turned into a
torment beset by horrid omens.
Digging in her garden, Greer, who
loves all frog-like creatures, finds
her metal fork embedded in the
belly of a toad.

This is a peculiar book. How
could it not be? It is a menopausal
reverie. It started in the notebook
in which, 20 years before,
Germaine Greer began to plot The
Female Eunuch. (Does Greer have
a sense of irony, or is she too
Australian?) Eunuch is a diatribe
against docility in women. In its
day it was quite staggeringly
influential. Any woman above 40
can tell you instantaneously where
it was she read The Female
Eunuch: the “where-were-you-
when-they-shot-Kennedy?” effect.
A friend of mine was in a wagon
lit, the upper bunk, and when she
descended she was quite another
person, astonishing her husband
with the sudden force of
Greenpeak. She is still married
but she has her private telephone.

DADDY, WE HARDLY
KNEW YOU
By Germaine Greer

Hamish Hamilton. £13.95

In such ways The Female Eunuch
did indeed change people's lives.

Men are perverse and polarized.
So where did that leave Daddy?
How far, in fact, had life with
father been an influence on that
fa miliar Female Eunuch view of
masculinity? Would Germaine
have been gentler if Daddy had
been fonder? There are interesting
questions which bear on the
obsessiveness with which
Germaine Greer set out on her
long travels to identify Reg Greer,
the Houdini of Tasmania, a male
version of Germaine not just in
physical appearance, both bearing
a strange resemblance to the
kangaroo, but also in the twists
and turns of his evasiveness, his
resistance to consistency. He got
-through life with¬
out a birth certifi¬
cate or passport.
His persona was
built up from a

_. collection of pre-

— ■ ■ ■ fences: it was as¬

sumed, for instance, since be
always put his gloves on when he
went out of the office, even in a
Melbourne heatwave, that Reg
Greer must be English. He was
not.

As a study of the celebrated in
pursuit of the almost non-existent,
this book has its fascinations.
Greer, so famously opposed to
theories of penis-envy, is des¬
perate to prove that her Daddy
was a someone. She is used to, and
indeed expects, enthusiastic ser¬
vice. She demands, and she is
granted, an appearance on the
tVogan show. Sir Ray Ferrali,
doyen of Tasmanian newspaper
owners, answers her letter ab¬
solutely instantly. Sydney Radio
obligingly sets up a whole phone-
in on anxiety neurosis, from which
her father suffered. When people
in the outback, librarians and
archivists, fail to recognize her
and her urgency of mission, she is
very hoity-toity; if they happen to
be women she claims crossly to be
losing her faith in sisterhood.

Greer in action is one thing. As
she traverses the continents enor¬
mously expensively, from Austra¬
lia to India to Malta to England,

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then returning to Australia, her
girlish vim and vigour are impres¬
sive and appealing: she acts the
schoolgirl sleuth, Germaine of the
Remove. It is Greer with the
vapours who is much more of a
worry. Germaine languid, Ger¬
maine wistful, Germaine sleep¬
less, Germaine prostrate with
anxiety symptoms as alarming as
her father's. Woosh! Boom! Per¬
haps the honidest of physical
descriptions is the one in the first
chapter of Germaine being sick.

T hings go from bad to
worse. As the research
advances, Greer discov¬
ers that her father was
not only not a somebody
but was rather worse than nobody.
He was illegitimate, a ward of
court His foster parents were
called not Greer but Greeney. He
had married under false pretences.
He had deceived his wife (tbe
thing Greer finds the least forgiv¬
able, denounced in most surpris¬
ingly shrill terms of bourgeois

outrage). Daddy's military service
had been anything but glorious.
He had been a cypher officer in
Cairo and Malta, and his two
official years of misleading and
concealing seem to have increased
his genius for self-obliteration.
When he got back to Australia, in
tbe years of Germaine's child¬
hood, in very many senses there
was no Reg Greer at alL
It is of course enough to send a
daughter crazy, and there is a
touching portrait of Greer in the
guise of mad pre-Raphadite
maiden roaming through the
meadows of Malta and of Gozo.
contemplating the wild flowers
and trying to sort out her re¬
sponses to her father. The inten¬
sities of feeling welling up within
her make terrible demands on the
patience of die reader. Self-censor¬
ship abandoned, she lurches into
page after page of the most
tiresome genealogies, in the dead¬
pan style of the Great Bore of the
Day. Her nature descriptions, at
which Greer is not a natural, teeter

on the edge of comedy: there is die
prize example of the “phantas¬
magoria of wilting petunias” on
page 243. Worst of all, there are
the dialogues Germaine sets up
with Daddy. Some are quasi-
Shakespearian, with Germaine as
Cordelia, and are dreadfully
embarrassing. Oh dear. Oh dire.
Oh Greer.

Greer is not what die was. Bull
suppose she will recover. This
book is still worth reading. It is a
good bad bode. Greer is still a bad
good person. Aha, one thinks,
relieved when she alights on a
strong topic like the question of
why men in general are so much
more sexually confident than
women. Her theory is that moth¬
ers carefully and dutifully build up
their sons’ confidence, systemati¬
cally, daily, whereas fathers, being
more erratic creatures, only boost
their daughters’ sense oflovability
sporadically. Greer's next book (if
she can bear it) sbould be about
her mother. She can still get
debates soaring like nobody else.

Games people play

No one is very grown-up or
credible in this entertaining story
of our contemporary wars of the
sexes; especially none of the men.
The protagonist, Leo Ulm, is an
aging telly-star social philosopher,
hero of the flower children of the
Sixties, with intimations of Mc-
Luhan and Umberto Eco. You can
tell that this monster of male
chauvinist vanity is a pseud from
bis vulnerable, liitie-boy-4osi lop¬
sided smile, and the fact that he
does not know the names of
flowers. He writes Mrs Thatcher’s
speeches for the 1987 election for
her, has a stroke at a royal garden
party, and comes to a fishy end on
the night of the great storm.

Any number of Leo’s circle of
female satellites might have
helped him on his way. ora: at any
rate been relieved to be at last rid
of his filial attraction, including
several otherwise intelligent
women who are besotted by his
alleged glamour. There is Char¬
lotte. the elderly former wife he
ditched, who is going quietly mad
in the cottage across the lake: her
long-suffering younger replace¬
ment who is appropriately called
Martha: and Martha's two young
friends since school, sexy, silly
Alice who married Charlotte's and
Leo's blind son, and Clara, the one
nice and almost grown-up charac¬
ter in the cast

in case this sounds like what is

NOVEL

OF THE WEEK

Philip Howard

THE GROWN-UPS

By Victoria G lend inning

Hutchinson. £11.95

dismissed as another “woman's
no-.el" of adultery and ,-lrtgrt
among the Hampstead classes,
there are wider perspectives. The
political state of the nation is
spikiiy observed. In the decay of
approaching death. Charloue has
Apocalyptic and Armaggedon vi¬
sions. There is the funniest aca¬
demic interlude since David
Lodge's AVer Work, at a con¬
ference in Washington where Leo
has what he hopes is a one-night
stand with a French delegate. The
gross littleness of domes tic life, the
flotsam and jetsam of Eighties

Britain, are beadily observed
against the rides of history outside.

Some of it is highly spiced. The
book starts with the modern four-
letter equivalent of the sensational
old Green Hat intro: “Hell, said
the duchess.” Martha and Leo's
little daughter is blackmailed into
eating a worm by ghastly visiting
children: the book is sharp on the
nasty games children of all ages
play. Clara, who is sympathetic
because she is unsure what to
think about things, is said to be
more full of vague regrets than a
corpse is of worms. This could be
indicated less blatantly. The book
is funny on such fundamentally
funny things as the male genitalia,
and masculine fears of sexual
inadequacy, and full of traps.
Calm Martha, the earth mother,
starts drilling holes in deeply
frozen chickens, and you realize
that she has finally cracked at
having to prepare yet another
meal for visiting Leo-worshippers.

No one ever knows the whole
story. The people on the inside
know a few small things, mostly
about themselves. The people on
the outside know a few big things,
from which they draw the wrong
conclusions. Nobody quite knows,
or dares to ask. what happened to
Leo. This is a lively, cleverly
constructed and funny tale of the
strange ways of men with women,
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Thursday’s
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A bad smell
in the air

Oliver Anderson’s Rotten Bor¬
ough suggests that over-zealous
mercantilism has always _ been
good for satirists. Written in the
Thirties, and now reissued to
coincide with the first decade of

ling tract comes loaded with those

history can bring. The book was
written as a satirical expos* of the
Grantham of the 1930s, and in
particular, of its municipal digni¬
taries — the men who sat on the
Town Council but really served
the Board of Commerce, men
heavily unbolstered with now-
famous virtues — thrift, decency,
hard work — but sprung and
padded with greed and hypocrisy.

The Grantham of Rotten Bor¬
ough has a tallow factory at its
centre which pollutes the air and
makes the mere act of drawing
breath well-nigh insupportable.
Have repeated signed petitions
from tiw inhabitants on the
grounds "of health and decency
done anything to abate the nui¬
sance? They have not. And why?
Because the tallow factory belongs
to the senior Alder man in the
borough, Alderman FxedTwidale.

Anderson’s theme is that you
cannot worship two altars within
one shrine ; you can't exchange the
modest theology of public service
for the graven images of profit and
loss. It is a wonderful tale, let

The Literary Edftor’s selection
of interesting books pubftshed tWs
week:

HCTION

Bad Behaviour, by Mary
Gaftskffl (Sceptre, £3.99) Razor-
sharp stories about the dark
side of human relationships in
American trig cay melting-pot

Dfampnda of the Nljpit, by
Amost Lustig (Qua; at Encounters,
S&95) Stark short stories set in
Nazi concentration camps, by
leading Czech fiction-writer, the
most im port a nt (pretty weH the
only) Jewish writer of Bohemia
to have survived the Holocaust.

Hash for F reedom and Royal
Flash, by George MacDonald
Fraser (Fontana, £3.50 each)

Larks with Flashman scuttfing and
chuckling through the -
motorways of history.

Into the Ebb, by Christopher
Rush (Aberdeen University Press,
£9.50) The latest coBection of
poet's stories from the EastNeuk
of Hfs, from couthie Writ
session to pierhead gossip.

Wild Justice, by Lesley Grant-
Adamson (Faber, £3-99) Reel
Street whodunit featuring a
rancorous caste of megalomaniac
hacks—how different from the
home life of our own civfizsd serfoes.
NON-FICnON
East End 1888, by Wiliam J.
Fishman (Duckworth, £9.95) Life
for the labouring poor a century
ago, to cure sentimental nostalgia
for Victorian values. .

The Interpretation of Early
Music, by Robert Oortington

paperbacks.

James Wood

rotten borough

The Real Story of
Mrs Thatcher’s Grantham
By Oliver Anderson

Fourth Estate, £5.95 -

down only by Andereon’s fond,
ness for pastidring Evelyn Waugh
(Anderson will not turn a comic
sentence if be can revolve one

0».

P>. .

But, you will say, tins book,
surely has little to do with tire real
Grantham of tbe 1930s, foe
Grantham in which Tbalcher grew
up, the Grantham that nurtured
her father, Alfred Roberts, a man
who became a member of the
town's aldermanic bench, spon¬
sored by the Chamber of Com¬
merce. AO one can say is that foe
l uminar ies of Grantham thought
that the book bad plenty to do
with reality, and issued various
libel writs. Only three weeks after
publication, this fine and fanny
book was withdrawn from circula¬
tion- Things were easier, then, for
foe tinpoi Ayatollahs of Lincoln¬
shire: it is not known whether
Oliver Anderson was given police
protection.

QUICK LIST

(Faber, £14.99) New edition,
first in paperback, that takes us
back as near as possftrie to the
sounds and sweet twangs.

Ma mi ni aaa Juvabft. selections
from the proceed!

Society, etfited by
Robertson (Bristol Classical Press,
£9.95)1 nteresting and influential
papers by the choice and master
scholars of the wiekler of the
stateliest measure ever moulded.

The Real Charles. The Man
Behind the Myth, by Alan H amilton
(Fontana, £&95) Behind the
gossip, fantasy, and make-beSeve,
the professranaTs account of
the Prince of Wales, done with
style and humour-and
accuracy.

The Thms Guide to 1992, by
Richard Owen and Michael Dynes
(Times Books, £535)
Comprehensive handbook to
Britan in a Europe without
frontiers, giving essential
information on am Important
step on the tongmarch of British
history, by two Timas
correspondents, and accordingly
readsr-frienefly as well as
authoritative.

se Juvabft. selections , TvV-' >- ’

ui /RrMnl Pmmm ‘j * 1

Quinton (DuckwcNlh, £535) l
concise introduction to
Bentham, Mffl, their predecessors
and critics, with argument and
c o mm e nta ry ty one of our finest
expounders of philosophy.

• The Qfae of the Century, by
Kingsley Amis (Hutchinson
£11.95). It was a good wheeze at
the time, a seven-chapter serial in
The Sunday Times in which the
action stopped after six episodes
to allow imaginative readers to
send in their own solutions. The
murders too are serial, starting
with an apparent pattern — young
girls and thin-bladed knives —
then disintegrating into the ran¬
dom. It’s superior hokum and
quite fan fin- its short length — the
140 pages include the winning
reader’s solution as well as Amis's.

• Tbe Knot Garden, by Geoff
Nicholson (Hodder <£ Stoughton.
£1.95). A risk-taking virtuoso
performance that almost comes
off Libidinous television garden¬
ing star is found dead in hotel
bedroom. His suspicious but
ungrieving wife persuades a half
dozen or more assorted (very)
oddballs to prove murder. Nichol¬
son manages to juggle a snooker-
table of first-person narrators with
breathless skill, and an enormous
sense of enthusiasm. The climax is
substantial let-down, but foe book
is worth reading lor its sheer
inventiveness.

• Condition Purple, by Peter
Turnbull (Collins , £10.95).
Enthralling portrait of Glasgow's
underbelly in clutching story of
vicious killings in hookeriand.
“P” Division investigates pa¬
tiently among the druggies and
pomograpbers. Top class police
procedural, peopled with believ¬
ably human coppers and power¬
fully drawn villains and victims.
Soft stomachs a disadvantage, but
perseveiers mil be rewarded.

• Crimson Joy. by Robert B.
Parker (Viking, £11.95). Boston

CRIME

Marcel Berlins

private eye Spenser semi-officialfy
involved in seeking a homicidal
maniac who kills Mack women,
leaves red roses on the scene, is
probably a policeman, and might
be a patient of Spenser’s shrink
girlfriend. The new mellow,
responsible Spenser is, regrettably,
not as interesting as tbe edgier
version in Parker’s earlier books,
and there's more than a hint that
he's becoming serious. Needs
rejuvenating if be wants to stay in
the top league.

• The Sports of Time, by June
Thomson (Constable £10.95).
Two old men. friends become
enemies, die on the same night in
the same house, one apparently of
natural causes, foe other seem¬
ingly not A household teeming
with secrets and guilt, and tbe
moody and perceptive Detective
inspector Finch, pining for his lost
love, on hand to unravel and
clarify. Thomson is in top
claustrophobic form, weaving an
intricate absorbing plot with
extraordinary guile.

• Backlash, by Paula Gosling
(Macmillan . £10.95). Return of
American 'tec Jack Stryke on trail
of systematic police exterminator,
his sparky academic lover Kate
away at an English conference,
and temptation in the form of his
new tough-sexy operating partner
Dana. Gosling is excellent at the
pexsonal/police work melange.
and the rising tension as foe killer
etudes detection is skilfully and
grippingly paced.

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festival, Buck Owens tell s Daviii t«« f
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honky-tonker

ancous, rebel-rousing.
A honky-tonker. That’s
what tbey*re ■ saying
about Buck Owens and
' Buck is not always sure
whether. .the descriptions are

f flattering. “Man,” he exclaims,

■ “rye got to have an interpreter to
telLif the media likes me or noL”

No intenweters are needed,

however, when Buck starts talking

about crossover country mu si c.
His description threatens to
stretch into infinity. “It’s what I
call aH that ooey-gooey. molasses-
laden, assembly-line, machine, ro¬
bot-produced music," he says.
Five years ago. ooey-gooey coun¬
try of the easy listening, Kenny
Rogers variety was erasing the last
remnants ofa music that had once
been tough, direct, full of strong
stories with touching, even bizarre
imagery^ played by some of the
best musicians in America; Hill¬
billy heaven had shifted from the
Smoky Mountains ofTensessee to
die corporate high-rise buildin gs
jrf. of Los Angeles.

' Buck Owens had seen all this
coming, hack in the late Seventies,
and was busy in Bakersfield,
California, running a successful
business operation that included
radio, typesetting and printing
presses. During the Sixties he
enjoyed a remarkable run of 26
consecutive number one singles
on the country charts, writing and

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recording many songs that would
become. familiar throug h cover
versons by other artists. The
Beaties recorded “Act NanmtilV”,
Ray Claries recorded “Crying
Time ’ “Together Again" and
^Tve Got a Tiger by the Tail" and
in 1980 “Hot Dog" was a British
hftfcr Shakin’ Stevens.

Owens’s record sales dipped in
me Seventies but his fare* stayed
famili a r , too fa miliar in his own ~
opinion, thanks to a long-running
residency on the American tele¬
vision show .Hee-Haw. His dose
associate, guitarist Don Rich, was
killed in a motorcycle accident in
1974. “For the next few years I
think I just went through the
motions,” Owens says with a sigh,
“in retrospect I think 1 was in
shock. Then the Urban Cowboy
and the country pop rage came
along. It was a music I didn’t like.

1 was so sick of what music had
turned into. 1 couldn’t compete
with that. I tried to compromise
and. to be quite blunt, it made me
gag." ^

In 1979 be left the business and;
convinced himself that he was
happy out of it. Then, in 1986,
records began to emerge from a
new type of country singer whose
voices had the plangent timbre of
the honky-tonk tradition. The
corny choirs, the violins, the
prissy rhythm sections were swept
aside by fiddles and crying steel
guitars. To use the word coined by

Bucking a trend: country singer Bock Owens, round for the second time

American writer Nelson George, it
was retronuevp. The new young
purists such as Dwight Yoakam,

Randy Travis and kj± lang took
their references from Hank Wil¬
liams, Merle Haggard, Kitty Wells
and Patsy Cine.

On his second album, Dwight
Yoakam, all tight ripped jeans,
cowboy hat and boots and gaudy

Western jacket in the style of the
famous country music tailor
Nudie, gave very special thanks to
Buck Owens “for all his records
that still serve as an inspiration for
the California honky-tonk
sound." It was Yoakam who
persuaded Owens out of retire¬
ment

“That's a true story,” Buck

‘Bring along
earplugs, I
never did
say I wasn't
raucous’

Owens is fond of saying at the tail-
end of an anecdote; his own life,
though undoubtedly too colourful
to be anything other than true, is
mythopoeic. It is the kind of life
that has been turned into films
such as Coal Miner’s Daughter
and Sweet Dreams. The Owens
family travelled from Sherman,
Texas in the early 1930s, when
Buck was eight years old, driving
away from the Dust Bowl thought
towards California. Their car
broke down in Mesa, Arizona, and*
so they settled.

His mother played piano in
church, his father played harmon¬
ica and his uncles played guitar,
but Owens’s formative exposure
to country music came from
listening to the powerful radio
stations that broadcast from the
Mexican border, teaming out
hillbilly music, western swing,
Mexican ranchera, and, later, rock
’n' roll alongside advertising for
quack remedies like goat-gland
transplant surgery and a hair dye,
Kolorbak, that was found to cause
lead poisoning. “We lived up in
the mountains," says Buck. “My
daddy had an old car radio, if you

can believe they made these back
in 1938, and he brought it in the
house. He would take the battery
out of the car and that was our
entertainment.”

In the summer be would go to
California, picking up potatoes,
picking peaches and cutting grapes
and then mum to Arizona for
school. “I wore paste board." he
says, “and my shoes were lino¬
leum.” At the age of 16 he started
playing guitar and singing in the
small local taverns, eventually
moving to Bakersfield.

During those years he also
commuted to Los Angeles to play
sessions for many Capitol record¬
ing artists, including Gene Vin¬
cent, Wanda Jackson, Stan
Freberg, Tommy Sands and Faron
Young. This was a period when
producers such as Owen Bradley
and Chet Atkins, followed by Billy
Sherrill, began adding “sweeten¬
ing" lo recordings of country to
broaden its popular a ppeak Owens
disapproved and in 196S pub¬
lished his Pledge to Country Music
which, among other hardline
statements, promised: “1 shall
make no record that is not a
country record."

His own wide definition of
country developed in rough
dance halls whose owners were
prone to fire 91ns and drive cars
through their own doorways. At
60, coining round for the second
time, the music bom of this
apprenticeship still prevails.
“Bring your earplugs," be warns.
“I never did say I wasn’t raucous."

• Buck Owens appears at Wem¬
bley Arena tomorrow as part of the
three-day International Festival of
Country Music.

A Birds Eye view of

TELEVISION

When he was 10 years old,
William Golding swallowed a
splinter of wood from Nelson’s
cabin on HMS Victory. Sixty
eight years later, the Grand Old
Man of English Literature has
unkempt hair, snowy whiskers and
favours chunky-knit sweaters; be
looks every inch the sea captain,
the sort who win spin a rip-roaring
yarn at the drop of > salted
herriffig.

On The South Bank' Stone
Special (LWT) - Melvyn Britgg
interviewed the Nobel prise win¬
ning novelist whose Fire Down
Below, just published, is the last-
part of die nautical trilogy, that
started with Rites of Passage. The .
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was Golding himself, making Eke
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that old age is the golden time of
life, or reading from his work with
a brio which made everyone else
look as if they were under
sedation.

British writers are fortunate in
that they aresarroanded by water.
Boats, too, are a useful source of
metaphor; much of our everyday
language is rooted in sea-faring

terminology. Bragg demonstrated
with a sudden eruption of timber
shivering togorrhoea.

The ship in his trilogy is,
Golding freely admitted, a Micro¬
cosm of Society, with all the power
wrangling and dass differences
which that implies; it sounded a bit
like a high seas version of Grand
Hotel with period trappings. If
ever his status as a novelist had
needed assuring, it has certainly
been assured* now — he has been
given the rare accolade of having
beeaia^rikyoK by Bragg.qriee-

Tbe o iS'tkrtJ ber -g addressed in
Through The Keyhole (Yorkshire
TV) was “Who's House Is This?”,
or, \ more - precisely, “Who’s
Leatherette Bound Books and
China Figurines are These?”
Loyd Grossman pointed out dues,'
.while, back in. the studio, David
Frost looked seriously jet-lagged
and a team of quasi-celebrities
tried to guess tire homeowner’s
identity.

This would be a British Life¬
styles of tke Rick aad Famous,
except tint the subjects are neither
particularly rich nor extremely
famous. What would be natty good
would be if Grossman were en¬
couraged to trespass on premises
without the owners’ knowledge,
and before they’d had a chance to
tidynp.

Anne Billson

Dining out on class conflicts

THEATRE

Dinner

Warehouse, Croydon

Mark Bunyan has come up with
an amusing structure for revealing
current obsessions with class and
food. The bones eventually gain
body enough to hint at a play
within, but this does not happen
until the second half, so that, lo
use an apt image, most of the meal
is starters.

The cast of. four—two of each
sex — play four married couples
living within dining distance of
each other. These eight characters
are' spread across a spectrum of
political attitudes, from loftily

The Lady from
the Sea

New End, NW3

WAR REQUIEM

Galina Vishnevskaya
Peter Pears

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Conducted by Benjamin Britten

' Britten’s.incomparable
recording of his War
; Requiem is the soundtrack to
the Don Boyd production of
e Derek Jarman s new film.

This recording, one which
will never be super ceded,

remains one of the most
magnetic performances of

British music ever put on
• record/ ; Gramophone,

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Without going so far as to say this
play cannot be credibly staged. I
have yet to see a production in a
theatre that captures both the
anguish of the moony heroine and
spritriy naturalism of the sui-
rounding characters. Ftirthennore,
it is. not a play that should be
mounted by fringe companies with
slender resources.

Ibsen set the action in various
parts of a remote fiord, and at
various times of the day and night.
Steamers are passing on their way
to view the midnight ran but this
supplies no meteorological
precedent for playing the midnight
scene — in which the keen-eyed
Stranger, awesome as the sea,
comes to claim the Lady for his
own —as if it took place in a
tropical Maze. Nor is a sense of the
imprisoning mountain ranges ade¬
quately conveyed by a permanent
background of purple flats. The
only hope is to create poetic effects
with lighting-

moneyed Giftord with his Pre¬
toria contacts, to angry veg-eating
Lizzy marching against apartheid.

But there is also- the soda]
spread, with. Clifford's wife
Arabella (Sally Faulkner), coming
from landed gentry, condescend¬
ing to nervous David who did go
to university but wishes he had
not also gone to a grammar school.
The same actor, Paul Gregory
plays both these types. Jonathan
Hackett plays tizzy’s earnest,
banner-waving husband (public
school and university) as well as
Guy, up several notches on the
income scale and public school
too — but alas not university.

By causing these various cou¬
ples to meet at dinner tables some
sparks fly from the dash of dass
and consrience — not that the
moneyed set indicate much of

Biographers and other toilers in
the sea of Ibsen studies speak of
his psychological perception in
this play, ahead of its time (1888)
in understanding bow obsessions
might be cured. EUida must choose
between her dear old husband and
the Stranger —known, I fear, as
Freeman — to whom she regards
herself as symbolically betrothed,
and she can only make a valid
choice If she acquires the sense of
her freedom to do so.

This is all voy good and time but
the way in which Ibsen organizes
his story is bald and mechanical.
Tom Scott’s production of his own
translation for Askeion Prod ac¬
tions fails on this tight stage to
hide the tricks, and characters pop
out of gaps in the purple like toys
from a play box. AJetta Lawson’s
previous roles have included Miss
Jnlie and Mother Courage, in
which I trust she did not abide by
the rule, stiffness is aU. Of the
rest, Justine Glen ton’s interpreta¬
tion of Bolettn gives fife to her
scenes, suggesting that thoughts
formed before words emerged.

J.K.

Condescending: Sally Faulkner
this. Tbe author's affections are
clearly for the political activists,
despite their barmy moments —
“After the coffee we’ll play the
Nicaraguan video”. But the play
ends with them exchanging abuse
with the right-wingers, all four of

them dressed for the first time in
the same grey.

The potential of mealtime
conversation eventually runs out
and tbe evening is only saved (and
only just) by the party where
various couples chat and the
couple not chatting clap on masks
and utter unspoken thoughts. The
contrast between motive and ex¬
pression is sharp and hilarious,
particularly when superior Gif¬
ford is attracted to left wing Lizzy
(charming performance by Pam¬
ela Moiseiwitsch). Her excited
burst of “He fancies me! Oh,
power! Money!" has to fall victim
to the sober “No. South African
fruit" Unfortunately, too many of
the play’s dramatic possibilities
are similarly squashed.

Jeremy Kingston

THE TIMES
ARTS DIARY

Ham from
thePru

We are all heaving a sigh of relief
since the PrndentiaTs announce¬
ment that it is £40 million bettor
off than expected this year. This
will mean there are funds for the
newest and richest arts prizes, the
£200,000 Prudential Awards for
the Arts.

It will also be the most aestheti¬
cally cosmopolitan, judging from
the entries: the Royal Opera,
English Shakespeare and tbe Nat-_
ional Gallery take on the likes of
the Snarling Beasties Theatre
Company, Geographical Duvet'
and the Newham Community
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category winners and £75,000 for
the overall laureate.

• It is hard enough being a.
millionaire author, lan St James:
tells me, hrt being a millionaire
author with an idea is something.
else. Promoting his new i&UMMl,
personally funded short story-
awards scheme, he gave 125 inter-:
views in 45 towns in 18 days. life'
was easier when he was a manage^
meat consultant called Don Tay¬
lor “If 1 went into a public toilet,,
by the rim» I came out, 1 would
have formed two more companies
with tbe two men on each side V>£.'

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As arts organizations cast about,
for more and more exotic and*
complex ways of attracting spon-*
sorship, the London International'
Festival of Theatre organizers

Eating for art Mfiler and Gowrie-

have come up with something:
novel. Hungary’s top theatre com-;
pany, Katona Josef is 10 perform*
Gogol’s Government Inspector said
Chekhov’s Three Sisters at the Old
Vic, but it will cost £21,000.

To raise the cash, the festival:
adminis trator, Julia Rowntree, •
has organized the ultimate Hung-1,
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Budapest the Lagradi Brothers?-
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£100 for a place at table at the St-
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director.

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TRAVEL

^Mjchael Watlrinc

f finds the Turks
aand Caicos Isl ands
as relaxed as

# - he could wi sh

hF. barest Blue

-•It', teethe dreaming spires
: “arapan rowers of

C' IT y battle-weary Miami, I
; .boarded a dipper for

: ; PTOvidenciales, which, in case you
. are wopdering, lies 575 miles south-
of slightly north of

.r^toba md Haiti. Abbreviated to

; ttSS an“ c °^sroup ofeight

tsands and 40 smaller cays known
as the Tints and Caicos, a British
.. Crown colony.

‘My first impression was of low-
*jying- scrubin ess — not unlike an

amiyhatrent-ascending dramatic¬
ally to a central plateau as vertigi-
^nousas Wanstead Flats, fringed &
«■ soperb beaches. -This remained my
second, third and hojng iui_
pre^iore for, whatever else Provo
-might offer to tickle the fancy, it is
short, on surprises. Where else
jaoaiotes, as a major tourist attrac-
® conch farm? Having at¬
tended - the guided tour, I still
. needed convincing that the conch
leads anything other than a sed¬
entary, uneventful life—the average
conch is rather a bore.

• At the same tune, the conch has a

/weirdly- osmotic effect on Provo,
translating its own taissez fain
-attitudes to the island’s human
population. As a conch will take an

- age to put on a millimeter in growth,
so will an islander take a day and a
half to reach any decision beyond
' that which is ordained by nature. In
[other words, although he rises in the

- morning and retires at night with
little mental stress, it’s the bit in the
middle that taxes his powers of
ingenuity.

Far from being discommoded by
. such lethargy, I found it immensely
gratifying. The expatriates I met
were living out the reality of a
dream — which would become ero¬
ded only by a population explosion
of other dreamers. With irregular
airline connections, scarcity of hotel
''accommodation and building land,
their dream tenure remains intact.

-But the portents are inauspicious.
Cable television has introduced 32
varieties of idiocy at the touch of a.
switch. Cub (Gulag?) Mediterranfe

call of the conch

Turtle Cove Yach>

Taking it calmly on Pro vi d CT dak a c » view of the dab, showing aD the charm of the sleepy Islands which are British Crown colonies

brines in pm mw nf «<v ft.. tk._t _u__t_ j_ u _ _

brin gs in groups of 600 to fiy their the driver, shaking my hand whh a
ramus in tte sun. Sheraton and- grip that dislocated a couple of
Rmnada have started building ho- unimportant bones. “We’d heard
tels. There are plans for a casino. A on the radio you were coming some
hitherto unknown species of en- time. Did you bring the fish?” What
trepreneur has alighted, conquis- fish, I asked. “Red Snapper,” Sam
tadOTs armed with Samsonite replied. “Your supper.”
briefcases and Harvard business TO try to explain how happy I was
degrees. At tiro Yacht dob I on Salt Cay. Bermudian salt rakers
eavesdropped on one such prosdyt- settled the island in 1673; but today
lserpreaching that in five years he’d the salt ponds are abandoned, made
make his fortune and dear out. obsolete by refr i gera ti on. It re-
Someone else tokl me that all the minded me of the outer Scottish
island needed was a “gimmick’* to islands, very poor, with low white-
be as rich as Croesus. washed cottages speckling a land

Over breakfast, tiro Hon Hilly ““ ? f by three-and-a-

Ewing, Provo’s r ep res entati ve on half- Inhabitants total 236, includ-

tfae legislative council, told me: “We JPf Sandy Iroggatt, aGlaswegjan,

can’t stand stfll and we can’t go «e s°te white man. Shipwrecked in

back; so it’s tourism. We’ll go for 1967 % he liked v*at he saw and did

broke, the sweet and tiro sour.” something very sensible: he married

_ , a local widpw. Mistress Been, and

It seemed a valedictory message; settled. He fixes thin gs he said,
so, consistent with the mood, I look' paints all the signs and does a lot of
my leave, chartering (ft’s that or reading. Their walls are hong with

swimming) a Piper Seneca for Salt
Cay. Flying for an. hour, we dipped
and swerved over atolls so diapha¬
nous they seemed like huge jelly¬
fish; we landed on a rough anal
strand, and the pilot marooned me
in emptiness and uncertainly. After
a while, someone cycled up, asked
me what 1 wanted, and pedalled off
again. Later, drawing a sirocco of
dust-in its woke, s hattered station-
wagon drew up. “Sam,” announced

brightly coloured pictures of the
Lord Jesus; and Sandy wore a much
swe&ted sweat-shirt covering the
convexity of his 70-year-old
paunch. One fine day he'll go back
to take a final look at Glasgow; but I
knpw and-be knew l knew that no
day will be quite fine enough.

Sam and Bonnie, his wife, gave
me a room at Wi ndmill^ a large,
airy room over-looking the sea, the
colours of which have not yet found

their way into the En glish language.
After supper, we scrunched the
station-wagon (there are no made-
up roads) to Leon's Bar, where we
played pool to the accompaniment
of dominoes slammed viciously on
to a table.

There are five churches and about
six family homes on the cay;
everyone is related. Even the dogs
look alike. There’s talk about start¬
ing up the salt ponds again, but I
don't imagine anyone seriously
believes it. Oh, 1 expect people
. gossip; there’ll be whiffs of hocus-
pocus; but I loved this place so
much I just don’t want to lhink
about that. When Sam and Bonnie
saw me off on the six-minute hop to
Grand Turk, we looked at each
other and said how much we liked
each other. People don’t do that
often; perhaps we should
Grand Turk turned out to be not
at all grand. Mind you, I stayed only
one night; but I couldn't see any
shops. There must be a supermarket
somewhere, I suppose. There were
some pretty, faded colonial-built
houses, with pink corrugated tin
roofs. Beyond tiro coral reef is the
“WalT, which falls to a depth of
4,000 feet, spectacular for scuba¬
diving, they say; but I had time only
to collect myself for dinner.

I'd been asked to dine at Govern¬
ment Houses the invitation —

embossed whh the royal coat of
arms — stipulated “informal”; so I
c han c e d my arm, leaving my tie
behind None of the men wore a tie
and I sat on the right of His
Excellency's wife, Patricia Bradley. I
said that I felt the islands were
waiting for something to happen, a
benign American invasion perhaps
— though just as threatening, in its
way, as the Marine Corps wading
ashore from landing barges.

She replied very gently, so that I
sensed she loved the place too:
“You should stay longer and ex¬
plore tiro under-cuirems.’'

TRAVEL NOTES

Virgin Atlantic flights to Miami
(0293 38222). cost £488 economy
return, £1,644 in Upper Class.
Miami to ProvkfenciaJes by Pan-Am
(01-409 0688), £140 return. Turtle
Yacht Club, Provo (0101 809946
4203, Telefax 0101-809 946
4141); double room: approximately
£61 excluding service or tax. On
Salt Cay, Windmills is developing a
seven-room hotel: inquiries to
Divi Hotels, 54 Gunderman Road,
Danby, New York 14050. Grand
Turk: Kittina Hotel (0101-809 946
2232); bead) double room: £58.
Further information from Turks &
Caicos Tourist Board, Grand
Turk, British West Indies, (Telex:
8227 CHIEFS EC TQ).

REVIEW 39

TRAVEL NEWS

Room at
the top?

London’s most faxurions ho¬
tels have been hardest hit by
failing tourist numbers, a new
report says. To find reason¬
ably priced bolds, people are
increasingly having to look
outside the dry centre.

Although the number of
overseas visitors to Britain
rase East year by 1.4 percent to
15.66 million, the number
visiting the capital fell by 0.1
mill ion to 9.2 million. And
tourist spending in London
last year fell by £60 million to
£3^00 million.

The report, from manage¬
ment consultants Pannell Kerr
Forster Associates, says: “Tbe
relative expense of London’s
four and five-star hotels has
been highlighted recently in
two surveys (hat bestow on
them the dubious honour of
being tbe most expensive, and
second most expensive, hotels
within their groups in the
world.” Not all hotels confirm
the report's findings. At The
Rifz, for example, there has
been no downturn in overseas
visitors. Food and beverage
director Andrew Coy said: “It
is British visitors, people like
yon and me celebrating an
anniversary, whose business is
2 per cent slower this year.
Our American visitors are
coming in about the same
numbers as last year, and we
are seeing more Australians.”

The fashion for upgrading
many of the capital’s hotels
through expensive refnrbish-
ments is increasing com¬
petition at the top, and
reducing the stock of afford¬
able budget accommodation.
The Dorchester is currently
dosed for a £72 million
1 renovation, and the I-an gham, .
formerly an hotel and for
many years used as offices by
the BBC, is due to re-open as
an hotel next year after a £50
mflfion restoration.

Hoteliers in locations where
trade is more seasonal will
envy London managers their
average occupancy rate of 77
per cent. But if hotels are to
continue to prosper, they will
have to improve their image as
employers and pay their staff
better, die report says. “Ho¬
tels require people, both for
operation and personality. The
decline in the number of young
people coming Into employ¬

ment in the 1990s is something
that most be addressed now.”

It predicts that flexible
working hoars and the pro¬
vision of child-care facilities
will be an integral part of the
solution.

• Outlook In The Hotel And
Tourism Industries — London
Trends 1989. £25 from Pannell
Kerr Forster Associates (01-831
7393).

Jump to it

Straight from tiro horse's rid¬
er's mouth — racing journalist
and former steeplechase jock¬
ey Lord Oaksey tells a tale of
the Grand National's most
famous fence in What’s
Happening in Britain. Bech-
er’s Brook, he recounts, was
named for a rider called
Captain Becher who, 130
years ago, failed to clear a
stream at the landing side of
the sixth fence. He was after¬
wards heard to remark that he
never realized water tasted so
foul without brandy. The first
issue of the new monthly
magazine is in newsagents
now and costs £2.'

• Two thousand new luggage
trolleys will bring Heathrow’s
trolley strength up to 9J00
when they begin service on
April JI. In addition to the
airport’s own staff in grey and
blue uniforms who are to
volunteer to help passengers
who are disabled, elderly or
travelling with young children
(they are not allowed to accept
tips), a new Skycap service will
offer porterage at £5 for carry¬
ing "any number of bags
within reason". Skycap uni¬
forms will be red and grey.

Thai the knots

Cruise the coast of Thailand
undersoil with Thai Yachting
(06285 28734). Its six and
nine-berth boats cost from
£280 a day with crew. The
fleet s home port is Saitahip,
about J2 miles south of the
resort of Pattaya. and charters
can be as short as a single day.
Sailing grounds include the
Thai Gulf and the Andaman
Sea.

• Edinburgh's George Hotel
(031 22S 1251) has a iwo-for-
one mini-break offer at £77 a
night per executive, twin or
double bedroom, for stays on
Friday, Saturday or Sunday
nights. The offer price in¬
cludes continental breakfast,
service and VAT.

Shona Crawford Poole

Travel Editor

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T here were 23 of us
giving our regards to
Broadway on a
weefc-iong London
Arts Discovery
Tour fora week, in November.
For some years this company
has brought .American groups
10 Britain to enjoy the best of
our theatre, and this was its
first venture the other way
across the Atlantic.

The sky tipped half an inch
of rain on us as we arrived at
the Hotel Dorset in West 54th
Street, handy for Fifth Avenue
and Broadway. From then on.
New York was at its brilliant,
sparkling best.

An orientation trip by bus
took us up to the upper West
side to see the Cathedral of St
John the Divine, still unfin¬
ished. It is a magnificent and
numinous place, with stained
glass containing some odd
items (such as the advent of
television, great generals and
their battles). Buy your own
gargoyle in the Cathedral
shop.

First stop on the way to the
theatre was the Museum of
Broadcasting at East 53rd
Street The museum, in the
old Stork Qub, was created in
1975 by William Paley,
founder of CBS. It has a
collection of more than 40,000
items from radio and tele¬
vision. and you can watch a
favourite show with your own
screen and headset Early
television went out live, as
was rudely demonstrated by a
CBS camera appearing

Playing away

Philippa Toomey takes a trip to
New York and Washington and
finds that the cities are a stage

abruptly in the background of
Maurice Evans's Macbeth in
J949.

That evening we saw M
Buttafty by David Henry
Hwang — a dazzling evening,
finishing up with a discussion
with the actors on how they

had accomplished this diffi¬
cult and brilliant play which
opens here neat month with
Anthony Hopkins.

Tuesday morning saw the
first discussion meeting with
tour leader Michael
Biiiington, theatre critic of
The Guardian. Wc were all
theatre buffs, and these talks
were, to me. a most enjoyable
and valuable part of the tour.

On to the Museum of
Modem Art, and the rest of
the day was free to range the
shops and museums — the
Metropolitan and Frank
Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim,
where the museum sometimes
seems the masterpiece rather
than the exhibits. The evening
saw us at Stephen Sondheim's
1988 Tony award-winning
Into The Woods, a musical
which takes a number of old
fairy tales and gives them the
Sondheim touch. There was
an expertly played brat of a
Red Riding Hood and a
domestic Cinderella who

couldn't adjust to being a
princess.

Wednesday offered an un¬
expected treat, when the Mu¬
seum of Broadcasting put on a
special performance of
Sondheim’s Evening Prim¬
rose, a 1960s television musi¬
cal with a spooky little story
starring Anthony Perkins.
Then it was on to a matinee of
Legs Diamond, the only new,
big Broadway musical of 1988.
Jt was still in preview after
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ent: the dancing was splendid,
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and the star, Peter Allen, well
known and loved in Amer¬
ica _but be was also the

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day.

. Thursday was 1 hanks’
giving, and those not steeping
in turned out to watch a real
piece of American tradition,
Macy's Parade on Broadway.

On Friday we went to
Washington by Amtrak. A
brisk whizz round the city
ended in a private tour of the
Folger Shakespeare Library,
where we saw bits of a
rehearsal at the Elizabethan
theatre (seating only 275) and
were allowed to look at some
of the treasures, including the
prompt ropy for John Barry¬
more's Hamlet in 1923 (al¬
most nothing left of Polonius
or the Player King) and Henry
VTII’s copy of Cicero.

The River Inn, where we
stayed, was only 200 yards
from the Foggy Bottom Metro
stop and a matter of minutes
into the city centre. Anything
Goes, the Cole Porter musical
starring Leslie Uggams, was
the entertainment for the eve¬
ning. On Saturday at the
Anna Stage. Zelda fich-
andler. its founder, producing
director and powerhouse
talked to us for an hour. The
theatre had a hard time of it
when it was founded 30 years
ago, but it now has three stages
offering a repertory of the best
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travel trade jargon for the least
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Water sport wind-sarfiag at the lake resort ofLoadesTfeHe

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sites teem, as " you might
expect (watch out for the give¬
away brochure words of“fon”
and “lively” when choosing a
ateX oun had generous
emplacements - set.; - among
trees. The d’Anre bubbled past

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fled garlicky airepacej with (more were

total strangers. She-was adead doused abouiPKjpn^aiMMhe
gill who smelt nice. Eviden^y ? op^ jound^ to, break the
for someone from New Ca- sSence’ was fne' XH zunp, zuup,
naan, Conne c tic u t, this was of*tiie many-zips that

the closest die had been 46 ^aseahe campersJk>L
Skid Row. 'The rMort ofSt Laiy was a

It. was. hardly , what wo . fiftfflfotiietres away, a gigan-
wanted to bear. We had just ticcackocHdpcktfa place that

Leafy backwaters: the waterfall of Latoor and the Tillage of Hante Bigorre, nestling in a mountain valley. This is ideal country for bird-watching, or simply taking in French life in the dear air

missed the deadline for book¬
ing superior sleeping arrange¬
ments and were about to find
our &mily of four spread
between two couchettes on
French Railways* Motorail
service from Boulogne to Tou¬
louse. As it turned out, any
awkwardness about sleeping
with strangers was swept away
in the excitement of we’re-aB-
in-this-together. We were all
intrepid Britons, off on our
summer holidays. Each of us
had our own bunk, whh sheets
and blankets. No one had
eaten garlic.

For the family abroad on a
modest budget, the couchette
is worth considering seriously.'
By the time we readied our
destination - St Lary-Soulan
in the High Pyrenees—our car
had carried us 170 mites. The
train had done the rest Over
the nights that followed, the
wisdom of our choice was
confirmed. Around dusk, the
caravan convoys would ar¬
rive, sweeping and lurching
into the campsite like exotic
junks. We would watch as
children spilled out of rear
doors, their legs asleep, their
cheeks streaked from the rows
on the road. The men would
unstick their shorts from a day
of sitting on scotched vinyl

prpbaldy looks cote in Printer
•with sonte snow arid brightly-
clad skiers. In summer it
seemed undreatedacojrimer-
datized Wot ori'thelandscape

sunshine. Nor is the trans¬
formation merely climatic;
while the French Pyrenees are
green-pastured and sparkling
with mountain flowers, the
Spanish side- is harsh and
parched and craggy.

Here, you imagine, they
could make spaghetti westerns
and then around the bend,
almost on cue, are some of the
actors — Spanish border
guards in dusty, curry-col-

whereyou half expected to be oured uniforms and, judging
accosted by HeadTs ybdefong by their afternoon shadows,
grandfather. And although the without even one rusty razor
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‘There were times when we
took to the car, the
heater, and the bird books’

watched some black redstarts “““

going about their business,

and the caves of MMous,

where a remarkably pious

guide likened every stalactite

and stalagmite to the Virgin If you’re looking for a more

interesting North American holiday

mg the French sign “Don’t tfrat isn’t necessarily more money
forget your guide” as “Don’t , . , .. ..

lose your guide”. Fearing that you ve lust found it.

^ “If t Prices for a
particularly difficult grotto, l _

chivvied the children so Cunard U3. holiday start at a start-

snow kept away, the August
weather was enough to test
even an En^ishman*s enthu¬
siasm for conversation on aO
thing s wet and windy.

. Woe betide those of us
caught picn^dkiiig beside some
drcurtoosHigh Pyrenean road
when the mists ptrived. There
were times when we took to
the car, the beater, and the
bird books, 'while our -young
daughters in macs and
sou’westers frohcked outside.

Wade among them. But on a
clear French day you could see
for miles. Oo one of them we
had stopped beside an un¬
made road to watch two
golden eagles gliding in warm
currents. Behind and high
above us,' two hang-gliders
stepped into the Wue, flirting
with the eagles before drop pin g
downwards to our eventual
destination — the tiny lakeside
resort of Louden vieOe.

And on another such day we

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waiting for his tip, had tmjoue ingredient,
stopped in the gloom with H

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If Stlary was a garish
disappointment, it did prove r./
an excellent stopping-off £'ijs ^

point. ‘ Twenty kilometres (

away was Arreau, a beautiful j

French.town with old stone,

and some half-timbered build- ^ * .%/<

ings, all with steely pitched

grey slate roofe in the style of ^

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H ere, the four rivers j
of the area come '
together and the
town is an atlrac-
. live maze of
bridges and riverside walks.
Here, too, at the Hotel
£rAngleterre, we tried M.
Aubiban’s excellent garbure, a
thick mutton soup, and some
cold Juranpon, which as
legend has it, was drunk at the
baptism of Henry IV.

And white it is a miracle
that anyone ventures into
congested Lourdes these days,
Bagjteres-di-Bigorre, the spa
town much loved by Na¬
poleon, is well worth a visit.

Again we thanked Sturrock
the chronicler for the story of
an Englishman abroad in the
1830s who, taking great excep¬
tion to a partisan account of
the Battle of Toulouse in a
book in Bagndres library, de¬
rided to set the record straight.

His corrective scribbling*
sparked offa dud to the death,
with the Englishman triumph¬
ing in what must have been
“one of the few duels that can
ever have been fought for the
sake of a marginal note”.

Mown .about Eke pieces of took ^the high and winding

yellow Utter. -j

Fortunately, we had stum¬
bled npon^an answer, in Jock
Sturrock*s«xceDeptSdck, The
French Pyrenees (Faber and

upholstery, and stand about Faber, £4.95). Like some wise
together, like wise, sea cap- old geography t eac her , Stur-

taitts, swapping tales of the
traffic in Lourdes or the
puncture near Tarbes.

While their maies and crcw
fetched water 'and struck
camp, we watched like royalty
from our Eurocamp-emplace¬
ment Eurocamp, a Cheshire
firm, is ihe market leader in
“soft” camping. Its red and
green tents, like huge Wendy
bouses, pepper the. French
countryside, each complete
with beds .(with. their..own
raattressesO;.. fridges, .electric
lights, cooker, -cattery ' and
crockery. "...

Whereas some of the coastal

rock reminded us Aat the
Westerlies dumped- their
moisture on the Fnetteh side of

the Pyrenees and then -passed
on dry and warm into Spain.

When the bad weather set
in, we headed sbutii and

road- that linked our valley
with that of the neighbouring
Adour. We fingered 5,000 feet
up at the Col tTAspin to take
in the view and watch French
life go by: the Cows and sheep
with their tinkling bells, hard
at work chewing the aid to
produce vache and fromage de
brebis for some Pyrenean ta¬
ble; away to our left the
sunlight catching the radio
mast on the huge Pic du Midi
de Bigorre, where the day

upwards on the road out of before; we were told, they had
St Laiy. A short drive away is had snow; nothing to disturb

the Tunnel de Bidsa, a three-
kilometre road tumid that
takes you under the moun¬
tains into Spain.

It is tike stepping back
through the wardrobe from
frozen Narnia: you enter,
Hamp and miserable, and pop

the peace, but the occasional
brightly bedecked cyriist whis¬
tling past us. legs pumping,
onwards and downwards.

Onwards was the valley of
the Lesponne, a delightful
leafy backwater and another
Sturrock recommendation.

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42 REVIEW

THE TIMES SATURDAY MARCH 25 198

THE WEEK AHEAD

THEATRE

LONDON

FASCINATING AfDA - A
FAREWELL. TO SEQUINS: Final
appearance of tfte tno of musical
setinsts. Adele Anderson, Diille
Keane and Denise Wharmby.

Lyric, King Street, W6 (01-741
2311). Previews Tues, Wed. Opens
Touts.

THE MARCH ON RUSSIA: New
play by David Storey, directed by
Lindsay Anderson. Bill Owen and
Constance Chapman r©-assume
the roles of a (now rebred} miner
end ms wife from Storey's in
Cefebrarfon, 20;-

TEASER - THE STORY OF A
STRIPPER: Mick Yates's 1964
study of e part-time striptease
performer. Directed for Great
Eastern Stage by Amanda Parker.

With Kamemte Fry.

Gate Theatre Oub. .bove Prince
Albert pub. 11 Pembridge road,
'.VI t (01-229 0709 j. Opens Tues.

OUT OF TOWN

CAMBRIDGE: National Student
Drama Festival: 34th such
corn pent ori/showcase, featuring
12 new works among the 21 in
total, presented at nine venues.
Everything from a one-man show
to a musical with 53 in the
company. Sponsored by The
Sunday Times.

Details from ADC Theatre (0223
359547}. Opens Thurs. Until Apr 6.
CAMBRIDGE: The Late
Christopher Bean: Touring
production of Emlyn Williams's
1930s version of a French comedy
by Rene Fauchois.

Arts (0223 3520001. Opens Mon.
LEICESTER: M. Butterfly: British
premiere of David Hwang's
Broadway award-winner. John
Dexter directs Anthony Hopkins,
Lynn Farleigh, Tsai Chin,

G.G. Goei. Transfers to West End.
Haymarket (0533 539797).

Previews today. Mon. Opens Tues,

LIVERPOOL: No Holds Bard: The
Royal Liver Shakespeare Company
present Michael Starke and
Andrew Schofield with an
irreverent collection of excerpts
from Shakespeare's works.
Touring.

Everyman (051 709 4776) Preview
Wed (50p). Opens Thurs.

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON: A
Midsummer Night’s Dream: Main
house season opens with John
Caird's production. John Carlisle,
Clare Higgins, David Troughton,
Richard McCabe.

Royal Shakespeare Theatre (0789
295623). Previews from Thurs.
Opens Apr 11. In repertory.

'*¥. - FILMS

WORKING GIRL (15): Attractive,
lighthearted social satire from
director Mike Nichols, with Melanie
Griffith as the Staten Island
secretary who zooms up the Wall
Street ladder. With Harrison Ford.
Sigourney Weaver. Nominated for

six Oscars, including Best Picture,
Best Director and Best Actress.
Odeon Leicester Square (01-930
6lll),fromFrl.

NICKY AND GfNO (15): Openly
sentimental drama about the bond
between two brothers - medical
student Ray Liotfa and mentally
retarded Tom Hulce. With Jamie
Lee Curtis; directed by Robert M.
Young.

Cannon Panton Street (01-930
0631). from Fri.

FILMS ON TV

GANDHI (1982): Richard
Attenborough's polished and
painstaking bio pic. winner of
several Oscars including erne for
Ben Kingsley's skilful portrayal of
the martyred Indian leader,
i, Mon, 7

BBCi.

7.30-10.30pm.

EDUCATING RITA (1983): WiDy
Russell's comic fable about an

&

ine, and directed by Lewis
Gilbert

BBCI. Fri, 9.30-11-20pm.

MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969): Jon
Vorght and Dustin Hoffman as the
odd couple adrift in New York in
John Schleslnger's gripping study
of loneliness and survival.

BBC2. Fri. 11.20pm-1.15am.

TELEVISION

COMEBACK: Anton Rodgers as a
failed suicide trying to rebuild his
life in a hospital ward in David
3'sfunm

Ambrose's funny-tragic drama,
based on a real case. Stephen
Dillon and Geoffrey Chater play
fellow-patients.

ITV, Mon, 10.30pm-12.20am.

THE GIFT: Play on One by Colin
MacDonald about two young
Scottish footballers hoping to
make the big time. Look out for
Tommy Docherty, playing a
harassed manager, and another
soccer legend, Jim Baxter, as
himself.

BBCI, Tues. 9.30-10.45pm.

ARENA: A profile of the Russian-
born architect Berthold Lubetkin,
best known for the Penguin Pool at
London Zoo and a fierce champion
of modernism.

BBC2, Fri. 9.30-10.20pm.

RADIO

THE PRICE: American stars
Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving
are joined by Timothy West in the
first radio production of Arthur
Miller's play about estranged
brothers who see the death of their
lather as a means of recondlation.
Radio 4, Mon, 8.15-10.15pm.

GOODNIGHT TO FLAM BORO:
Martyn Wade's dramatization of
the short but productive life of the
Yorkshire composer William
Baines, killed by TB at the age of
23. He is played by Douglas
Hodge, with Anne Stallybrass and
□avid Calder as his parents.

Radio 3, Tues, 7.30-9pm.

LORD NELSON EXPECTS:
Documentary about a seven-day
voyage in the Lord Nelson, a
training ship specially designed for

Designer Cocktail

Writer-director Robert Towne (above, right) who woa
an Oscar for his script for Chinatown, returns with a
new film. Tequila Sunrise, a beady cocktail of drug
dealing, baddy love and glossy backgrounds. Seven
years ago, the project was dated for Warren Beatty,
then ran aground. Now Mel Gibson (above, left) has
landed the main part of Dale McKnssk — a middle¬
man in the drugs trade, anxious to leave the badness.
Helping to complicate matters are Knrt Rnssell, a
high school chum recently promoted to lieutenant in

the narcotics division, and Michelle Pfeiffer, a
restaurant owner cangbt in the crossfire. The film may
not have the originality of Chinatown, but at least it
takes Towne back to the crime beat after his 1982
directing debut, Personal Pest. Towne had hoped to
follow Personal Best with a Chinatown sequel. Two
Jakes, but that, too, hit problems: Paramount polled
the plug after one day of shooting in 1985. Tequila
Sunrise opens in Loudon at the Warner West End (01-
439-0791), on Friday. Geoff Brown

the physically handicapped.
Radio 4, Thurs, 7-20-fipm.

ROCK

NEW ORDER: Introspective, "Blue
Monday" giants of the Indie scene.
Tonight, SECC, Glasgow (041 246
300d): tomorrow, NEC,

Birmingham (021 780 4133).

THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
OF COUNTRY MUSIC: Annual
gathering of the old country dans,
including: today. Tammy Wynette,
Boxcar Willie and Bobby Bare:
tomorrow, Buck Owens and Keith

Whitley; Mon, Wayksn Jennings,
Cotter and Townes Van

Jessi
Zandt.

Wembley Arena, Middlesex (01-
9021234).

LUTHER VANDROSS: Arguably the
top soul voice of the late Eighties.
Wed, NEC, Birmingham (02 1 780
4133); Thurs, for six nights.
Wembley Arena. Middlesex (01-
1234).

902

JAZZ

LONDON JAZZ COMPOSERS
ORCHESTRA: Avant-garde
inprovisatkm from Evan Parker,
Howard Riley and colleagues.
London Jazzhaus, Duke of
Wellington, London N1 (01-240
0083) tonight

TOMMY FLANAGAN: Leading his
own trio after years with EBa
Fitzgerald.

Band On The Wall, Manchester
(061 832 6625) Thurs; Queen's
Hall. Edinburgh (031 668 2019) Fri;
Ronnie Scotrs Club, London W1
(01-439 0747). From Apr 3.

KENNY DAVERN: Return of the
American swing clarinettist, co-
founder of Soprano Summit
Pizza Express, London W1 (01-439
8722) tonight Wed, Fri.

JAZZ WARRIORS: All-black, high-
velocity big band with soloists
induding trumpeter Harry Beckett

Snape Makings, AJdeburgft
(072885 3543) tonk

PHOTOGRAPHY

WORK: Brian Griffin's stunning
examination of the development
over recent years of London's
Broadgate site.

National Portrait Gallery, St
Martin's Place, London, WG2 (01-
9301552).

ON THE EDGE OF A CITY: Painting
by Ken Currie and photographs by
Chris Kfliip recording the decline of
the north east of England in the last
decade.

Manchester City Art Gallery,
Princess St Manchester (061236
9422).

GALLERIES

PAST AND PRESENT: Copies and
interpretations of old master
compositions by contemporary
painters who acknowledge a debt
to tradition: featuring sketches by,
among others, Leon Kossoff,

Frank Auerbach, Dennis Creffield
and John Lessore.

Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
(041 357 3929). From today.
STEPHEN WILTSHIRE:
Remarkable detailed architectural
drawings by a 14-year-old autistic
boy who works from memory.
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield (0742
734781). From today.

THE FALKLANDS FACTOR:

rtha South
loaning towards
satire and pacifism rattier than
glorification.

Wolverhampton Art Gallery (0902
3112032). From Fri.

JIM DINE: New paintings, sculpture
and graphic work. ■

Waddington Galleries, London W1
170611).

(01-4370611). From Thurs.

INTERNATIONAL
CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR; A
four-day art jamboree with 100
major galleries showing their best
London Olympia (01-4661951).
From Thurs.

JOHN BELLAMY: Recent paintings ,
and watercolour*. v

Fischer Fine Art, London SWI.fOl?
8333942). From Fri.

woodcuts and small 1

depicting animals by a recent Royal
College printmaking graduate.
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London'

~L From Tues.

W1 (01-4093599). From

CONCERTS

CHRJ371ANZACHARIAS: ; ‘
UrueuaBy, this ptanfet.starts wthC
P E Bach's Sonata in A minor,
continues with Beethoven* Sonata
Op 31 No 2 ‘Tempest" A ^
Schumann's fiaflttstestecte Op 12
arid Chopin's Scherzo No £

Tha Mattings, Snape, Suffo8c(Q72

8853543).Tomorrow,3pm-

DANCE

RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY: A

three-week London season opens
with Ashley Page's new SoMat, to
Stravinsky s suite from A Soldier’s
Tale, with Cunningham's Septet
and Richard Alston's Strong

Weds (PT-2788916). Ftam
Wedunta Apr 15.

SCOTTISH BALLET: Further

performances of Oleg
Vinogradov's new interpretation of:
Petrushka, on a Stravinsky hill with
Scottish Opera's Oedipus flax.
Theatre Royal, Glasgow (041331
1234). Tonight, Tues,- Thurs and
Apr.1.

ROYAL BALLET; Three

of MacMillan’s
and Juliet
Covent Garden (01 -2401066).
Mon. Wed, Thura.

OPERA

ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA: '

Revivals of Jonathan Miner's
productions of Don Giovanni
(tonight and Thurs ax 7pm) and The
Turn of the Screw (Fri, 7.30pm)
with Jane Glover conducting the .
Mozart and Peter Robinson the -

Britten. On Wed and Sat, Apr 1,
further performances of David
Pountney's affectionate new > -
Fafstaff with Benjamin Luxon In the
title role.

Coliseum. London WC2 (01-836
3161).

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE: Tonight at
6.30pm sees the opening off the -
final revival ofVisconti's classic
production of Don Carlo, with cast
led by Dennis O'Neifl, Katia
Ricdareffi and Samuel Ramey.
Richard Armstrong conducts the
work for the first time at Covent
Garden. Also on Tues and Fit
Covent Garden, London WC2 (01-
2401066).

SCOTTISH OPERA: New
production doubte-biHof
Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, rarely
staged, and Scottish Ballet's
Petrushka. Graeme Jenkins
conducts cast including Alberto
Remedios and Anne-Marie Owens.
Tonight, Tues and Thurs at
7.15pm.

Theatre Royal, Glasgow{061331
1234).

WELSH NATIONAL OPERA: On
tour to Oxford with Giles
HavergaTs vivacious i n terpretation
of Seraglio, and the company's
stalwart Let Scheme revival, with
Frances Ginsbera as MimL *
Apollo Theatre, Oxford (0865
244544).

BOULT TRIBUTE: Jrittie presence

afthe Prince of Wales, Andrew
Davis conducts the PMthhrmonta in

Walton’s Crown Imperial March,

6and, with Ida Haendel^sctoist?

Elgar's Violin Concerto — aU this In
tribute to the late Sir Adrian Boult
(above).

Festival Had, South Bank, London
SET(01-928 8800). Tues, 780pm.
IGOR OtSTRAKH: The
distinguished Soviet violinist plays
Bach's Sonata BWV1020.
neBeethoven's Sonata Op 12 No 3,

all

piano. .. . ,

Queen eizabeth Half, South Bank,
London SE1 {01-928 8800). Tues,
7.45pm. . :

SVIATOSLAV RICHTER; In the
secondof bfe two London recitals
the greatflussian pianist performs
sonatas by Mozart and etudes by
Chopin.

Barbican Centre. Silk St, London
EC2(01-638 8891). Wed, 7.46pm.

BRENDEL’S BRAHMS: More great
piarrism as Alfred Brendei solos m
Brahms's Piano Concerto No 1
with the RPO under Sir Charles
Groves. Later Sir Charles conducts
Elgar's Symphony No 1.

Festival Hafl, South Bank, London,
SE1 (01-928 8800). Thurs, 7.30pm.

DE PEYER PLAYS; Mdty&s . .
Sober's Divertimento and John
Ireland's Fantasy-Sonata for
clarinet and piano are heard from
Gervase de Peyar with Gwenneth
ftryw attto^piano. thehde^Fteyerte

Arthur Bliss's^C^netQuinteL
Wtamore Had, 36Wtgmore St,
London W1 (01-9352141). Thurs,
7.30 pm.

Theatre:. Tony Patrick; Fflmx
GeoffBrowo;Ceac«rts: Max Harri¬
son; Opera: Hilary Finch; Rode
David Sindalr. Jazz: Ctive Davis;
Dance: John Percrval; Galleries:
David Lee; Photography: Mike
Young;- Televisioa, -Radio and
Films on TV: Peter Wayraark

The Times Prize

ACROSS

DOWN

I Walker's prize may be won but not
enjoyed by you. it’s said (3,4.4,4,4,3,3.2)

15 Succeeds in catching 50 fish — an
overwhelming result (9)

36 One to cure the Jailings of this military
offender? (9)

17 “Music, when soft voices die, —s in the
memory” (Shelley) (7)

18 Ten as counted in the ring — or what
they do lo nine? (9)

19 Having more space for The Return of
Othello? That’s right (7)

20 Gambler losing his head becomes an
embezzler (9)

21 Islamic traditions had it before the
Hegira initially <6>

22 Open late, wild beast shows (8)

24 Stuff gold back in Baptista’s place (5)

25 Namely the spirit shown by players at
Twickenham f5j

27 Sharpshooter's one employed by Taplcy

(5)

30 Gets going with skills in backward
places 16.2)

32 Steep land treated to produce spermato-
phvic f4-5)

36 Swimmer being immature is always out
of the money 15)

37 It's rot so damp in the German state (5>

38 Iolamhc for instance liable to provide
the charm 1 7)

40 Enzyme that damages man’s lip (7)

42 Fair and loveable flower girt, guardian
cf Lancelot's shield iTennyson)
(6.3A4.2.7)

43 Heroic but tragic result of someone's
military blunder 13.6.2.3.5,7)

47 Harsh wind from the south and east H)

48 Dizzy crusader can’t change colour (7)

49 Voice's spherc-bom harmonious sister
(Milton) 151

50 Or.ce more a prophet, we hear 15)

51 Like one hanging on to new edition of a
hundred and two parts (9)

55 Alias Ensign Beverley as the perfect rival

(6)

57 Temper is by no means extreme <S)

59 Firm but brittle — like snow on
December 26th once f5)

61 Chap performing soprano part in this
opera (5)

62 Mink undies for female costume
embellishment? (8)

63 Practise dropping it for a change in this
predicament (6)

67 Disembodied spirit makes the mature
36 uncommonly mad (9)

68 Townsman brings food back to her (7;

70 Doom envelops German city in thunder
/9j

71 Fancy getting a soldier into mine
development (7)

72 Greek siain by Achilles in the right
locations (9)

73 Trumpet blast when army managed to
take Ireland's royal hill (9)

74 Unhappy verdict of famous physicians
on Henry tong's complaint
(5.2,2.4.3.4.7)

1 Pusillanimous workshop striker is seen
in flight (12)

2 Memorandum is in German and so not
observed (7)

3 Attack a sailor, say? (7)

4 Novel headgear (6)

5 Be put in complete confinement for
deviating from the norm (8)

6 The bilingual churchman (5)

7 Not in the pink - or the red at Wembley?
(3-6)

8 Set procedure, arranging tour in the
Orient(7)

9 Pharaoh toping drunkenly with can¬
nibals (13)

10 “A chorus-ending from —" (Browning)
(9)

11 Training period for US Intelligence
men. note, after All Saints’ Day (9)

12 Give me back a large pill for blood
trouble (7)

13 Maybe a riot after tart rejected in a
restaurant (9)

24 One of the more tricky propositions (7)

23 Loiters in a Portuguese resort (7)

26 Its fruit would appear to be somewhat
wicked? 1 6-4)

28 Merrymakers showing lapel material
about forty-five inches (9)

29 Gets rid of bends in narrows, say (II)

31 Fighters thus ordered up (message thus

protected) (9)

33 Record in retrospect tragedian's revised
version of The Bear, for instance (II)

34 The each-way principle (5)

35 Means of exposing mendacity, roughly
speaking? Extremely frivolous (8)

38 Fish and chips cooked with lard (9)

39 Job's Dickensian horses (8)

40 Plain creature — I order a pig lo be given
treatment (7-3)

41 Transpontine show was sensational! (9)

43 Many ensnared by this dissolute woman

(5)

44 French palace of fine notable construc¬
tion on gold foundation (15)

45 Measure by state against tote reform (7)

46 About lo be taken in by a French
teenager perhaps — incorrigible (12)

52 Retreat disorderly without one, 'e
appears to keep saying 19)

53 She’s devilishly persuasive (9)

54 Prison a hindrance to an artist (9)

56 Movement putting domestic deity over
Jews’ quarter (9)

58 Shower forecast for the wedding? (8)

59 Subtle to lose a pound to the shopkeeper
(7)

60 “Taffeta phrases, silken terms — M
/Lore's Labour’s Last) (7)

62 Tel! in advance that the sum charged
indudes mineral aggregates (7)

64 Those paying a lawyer about fifty-one
cents (7)

65 Graduate is received by a Buddhist
priest in state (7)

66 65's southern neighbour, no end flowery

( 6 )

69 Make new arrangement of trees (51

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on Monday, April 10. Entries should be sent to The Times Easter
Jumbo Crossword Competition, The Times, 1 Pennington Street,

London, El 9XN. The winners and solution will be published on
Saturday, April 15.

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solution win appear on Easter Monday

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Preston, Lancashire.

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(yesterday’s concise crossword)
ACROSS: 1 Attire 4 Frolic 9 Keratin
10 Harem 11 Seal 12 Colander 14 Hangar
15 Island 18 Irrigate 20 Fare 22 Zaire
23 Retract 25 Linger 26 Frothy
DOWN: 1 .Ask 2 Terrain 3 Rate 5 Re¬
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17 Story 19 Reign 21 Star 24 Stay

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ACROSS: 1 Script 5 Panic 8 Err
9 Grove) 10 Actual 11 Lawn 12
o^er 14 Hosier IS Tissue 16 Reveller
18 Bum 19 Vision 21 Social 22 Cut
23 Allah 24 Shoddy
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4Tdstar 5 Prank 6 Net 7 Chateaubriand
130sso Bucco 15 Thrusts 17 Lunch 201U

ACROSS
1 Dean Buigon’s
description of
Petra

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15 Rear skull bone
(9)

16 Skilled, pro¬

ficient (9)

17 Prohibited (7)

18 Intense praise (9)

19 The — in the
Rye (7)

20 Female capra

(5,4)

21 Gothic vault

short rib (6)

22 Light anchors (8)

24 Ancient Aegean
islands region (5)

25 Appointments
record (5)

27 Sleeping frame¬
work (8)

30 Moliere’s pious

hypocrite (8)

32 Puli out, uproot
(9)

36 Chest (5)

37 Last of series (5)

38 Near range photo
(52)

40 Ordained min¬
isters (7)

42 Who mil guard
the guards?.
<4,9,5,8)

43 Paris slaymgs of
Huguenots
(8,2.5,11) •

47 Discharge with
dishonour (7)

48 Decorative bush
trimming (7)

49 Scent (5)

50 Angolan Savimbi
movement (5)

51 Right angled mo¬
tion transfer
shafts (4,5)

55 Votes back to
office (2-6)

57 Alcohol potency

( 8 ) •

59 Jockey (5)

61 One who has a go
(5)

62 Furtive (8)

63 Catfish, carp (6)

67 Cut to earlier
scene (9)

68 Make stronger(7)

70 Goods promo¬
tion, selling (9)

71 Sharp-leaved
vegetable (7)

72 Position holders
(9)

73 Unwise (9)

74 Johnny Green,

Tommy

Stout

nursery rhyme
(4,4,4,6,21,3,4)

DOWN

1 Beautiful intent
(8,4)

2 Block up (7) .

3 Give account (7)

4 Have as con¬
sequence (6)

5 For cooking (8)

6 Special theme (5)

7 Sincerely meant

(9)

8 Door fastenings
(7)

9 Bold aggressive¬
ness (13)

10 Aulhoratitive de¬
cree (9)

11 Accused (9)

12 Spattered (7)

13 Lover (9)

14 Uprightly (7)

23 Poster (7)

26 Manipulator (L0)

28 Pays out (9)

29 Property period
ownership (11)

31 Flower trade (9)

33 Bring in again

on

34 Slackens(5)

35 Red root veg¬
etable (8)

38 Crackle (9)

39 Status (8)

40 Wealthy rulers

( 10 )

41 Making unhappy
(9)

43 Brilliant Ameri¬
can parrot (5)

44 Judging very
severely (13)

45- Marginal note (7)

46 Compulsively '
driven (12)

52 Nuclear decay
emission (9)

53 Curled pile collar
style (9)

54 Joker's smelly
missile (9)

56 Huge tusked
mammals (9)

58 Iranian spiritual
leader (8)

59 Pulled up at
fence (7)

60 Took case again
(7)

62 Pay out (5,2)

64 Anatomical cir¬
cular areas (7)

65 T reads, nuts

sweet (7) -

66 Axilla (6)

69 Horrid .(5)

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SECTION

4

SATURDAY MARCH 25 1989

Waves put Boat Race at risk

STEPHEN MAftKESQN

anew tune
to an old song

By Clive White

■■ • .j. .■

■'»* • ■ .. ' ~ .

■ • ■■■ .t>.

Boughing it; The Oxford boat ploughing through heavy water on the Tideway yesterday as the crew practised for today's Boat Race, when conditions are likely just as inhospitable

Pomlinilrvo 135th Boat Race " iHAMMEnamH^L

Cambridge start
out as the
heavy favourites

By Jim Rallton

Cambridge, with the second with Oxford's three. The only

Of the 134 races rowed Cambridge
have won 69, Oxford 64, with one
dead heat on March 241877 in a
time of 24min 8sec. Both craws
have a woman as cox tor the first
time. Toby Backhouse, of Cam b ridge,
at 16st 1 lib. wW be the heaviest
oarsman to have taken part

Oxford 1978 .. |$

6min24 sec_[v:

HAMMERSMITH

MIDDLESEX

CHtSWtCK STEPS

Oxford 1984 I
: lOmin t5aec 1

heaviest crew of all time, go
into today's 135th Boat Race
as the dear favourites. If the
powerful Cambridge crew set¬
tle into their stride smoothly
then Oxford will have little
chance of success. Their only
hope would appear to be a
rebellious Tideway that would
unsettle the Light Blues and
slop them applying the power
advantage they enjoy from
being almost 111b a man
heavier.

Yesterday the conditions on
the Tideway were frightful,
with the high wind blowing
against the tide and producing
white waves that could well
sink the boats if they persist
today. There is a chance we
could sec the Boat Race being
run tomorrow. Monday or
even Tuesday unless there is a
change in the weather.

Cambridge have grown in
stature since their late arrival
on the Tideway and arc
favourites to lake the Beef¬
eater Gin Trophy. They were
loo big for their boat originally
but appear to have re¬
constructed it successfully.
They worked extremely hard
at Ely before arriving on the
Tideway a week last Thurs¬
day. Since then their heavy
machine has purred.

Their performance today
may well hinge on the work of
their freshman. Toby Back¬
house. who stands 6ft Sin and
at the official weigh-in last
Monday tipped the scales at
Ibsi 11 lb — a Boat Race
record. Backhouse had a back
problem during pre-Tidcway
training but appears 10 have
recovered well.

Cambridge are thirsty for
rewnge and today have five
Blues on hoard, compared

winning Blue in the Cam¬
bridge boat is Ian Clarke,
while Oxford have Jonathan
Searle. a world junior gold
medal winner, Michael
Gaffney and Paul Glceson
who have had the pleasure of
reaching Mortlake first in a
Boat Race.

When Oxford hit their
stride they are hyper efficient.
They have a fine engine room
jn Jonathan Searle. a Rhodes
scholar, and Michael Gaffney,
with Olympic oarsman Ter¬
ence Dillon at five. They,
rather than young Richard
Thorp, will provide Oxford's
main attack today.

Oxford have been extrovert
throughout, conducting bril¬
liant trials in December and a
good win in the Reading head-
of-thc-river race. While there
were question marks over
their recent Tideway tests
against London University
and the Nottinghamshire
lightweights. Oxford were
speedy when they thrashed
Isis, their reserve crew, by slv
lengths during final Boat Race
training. They are a good crew
of true grit.

For the first time both crews
will be steered by women.
Cambridge's Harvard gradu¬
ate Leigh Weiss and Oxford's
Alison Norrish are likely to be
in aggressive moods. It could
well be a race decided under
the sharp eye of the umpire,
Ronnie Howard.

Lees is constantly in com¬
mand of Cambridge, while
Oxford once again appear to
have a committee of coaches,
with words of wisdom sup¬
plied by Mike Spracklcn. the
Olympic coach and other
Olympians.

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SURREY

PUTNEY BRIDGE

A contest all the better for its
return to a traditional balance

It is perverse that Liverpool,
the team: which has domi¬
nated the. League champ¬
ionship ad nauseam during
the past two decades, should
be helping to enliven "this
season's competition with a
spirited-late challenge which
may yet end in the Merseyside
dub collecting their eigh¬
teenth title.

| . They are, without doubt,
the team in form; as their
ominous 3-1 victory at Cov¬
entry, their sixth in six games,
on Wednesday confirmed; 21
goals scored and only three in
-reply. Maximum points from
their two games over Easter,
away against Tottenham
Hotspur tomorrow and at
home against Derby Comity
on Monday, coukl put a new
complexion on the
championship.

Arsenal' will be thankful
today to get away from
Highbury, where their once
vibrant championship hopes
have slithered in the morass of
their appalling pitch, foiling to
win any of their last three
games. The propensity of
home fixtures, which at one
time it seemed might swing
the title their way. has become
a handicap.

Fortunately for them, their
away form has been outstand¬
ing, but they meet a
Southampton team at The
Dell who are equally desperate
for a change in fortune afier 18
games without a win. The
second division seems to be
drawing them like a magnet
and it may take more titan the
£950.000 that Chris Nicftoll,
the club's manager, has hur¬
riedly spent this week on
Adams, from Leeds United,
and Home, from Portsmouth,
to keep them up.

Seldom can it have hap¬
pened that the two leading
clubs in pursuit of the champ¬

ionship have each been more
at home away from home. Not
that the form of Norwich City
at Carrow Road has been
poor Indeed, they have lost
qnly once there in their last 15
league and cup games. But
they are marginally a better
side away from Carrow Road
where their supporters have
been slow to accept the team's
methodical style.

Newcastle United, second
from bottom and who go there
today, might prove to be not
quite the soft touch some
people imagine.

Whatever the outcome, this
season's championship has
already been one of the most
exciting in recent times and
few have contributed more to
that end than Mi 11 wall, who
must surely now have shed
their sinister image- They
have exceeded their wildest
dreams by continuing at the
forefront of the first division
since the start of the season.

Their third place, though, is
under threat today from
Merseyside; Evertoo stand be¬
fore them at Goodison Park,
Liverpool just behind them,
waiting to take advantage of
any slip. Colin Harvey, an¬
gered by Everton’s capitula¬
tion at Newcastle, has
threatened to make changes
which may include the demo¬
tion of Coftec, the England
forward, who has scored just
twice in his Iasi 17 appear¬
ances.

That would, indeed, be
perverse on a day when his old
sidekick, McAvennie. makes
his reappearance for West
Ham United. McAvennie. re¬
signed from Celtic for £1.25
million in midweek, will be
expected to start repaying that
huge investment in his
goalscoring potential against
Aston Villa ai Villa Park.

UEFA fines Hearts

The Boat Race today has just
about the right balance for an
undergraduate sport: two
crews each embellished by no
more than two graduates, plus
a total of three Americans.
Cambridge's average age is
22W, Oxford's under 22.

What is glaringly over¬
looked by both Boris Rankov,
in bis recent letter to Dan

COMMENTARY

David

Miller

Chief Sports
Correspondent

and Donald Macdonald, the

Topolski on the 1987 Ameri- president, two years ago was
can Mutiny, and Topolski ihat Topolski, having es-
himself, in his highly subjec- cooraged the graduate domi-
tive book on that race. True iwnro of Oxford boats, had
Blue, is that tbe Boat Race is become the sorcerer's appreo-
intended to be, and should be, tice, suddenly overcome by his
a contest primarily between own creation. Unfortunately

TODAY’S BOAT RACE CREWS

Oxford

GB Blanchard 13 e

(KCS Wvnbhxjon ana Orioq
*P Glceson IS Q

tStMsrtai's Brentwood
and Hanford)

GGCChevetey 13 a

fTontondgo 3rM Pemfironoi
C Mac Ionian 13 7

[Camp H>a and KbNo]

"TDillon 14 12

(BocMH. King oCoilogo.

London and OneO

•M Gaffney 14 9

(Avon OM Farms. US Naval
Acttoniv and Hartford I
US and Sidney Sw»o
•JWCSearto 13 s

(Hampton and Cnnst Church)
ft J Thorp 13 2

(SnrewoDurv ond 5t John s|

CoBoTO and LMBC)

ARM Norrish 713

(Kingston and Urnverettyl

ArarffB m mgut ISM IT-Ub
"ABhM

5t ft> « B>

13 6 BOW *IRClarke 13 4

(Stourpart and fiewtfuam)

IS 0 2 *M J K Smith 1412

iShtewstusy and Magcaene)

13 3 3 PM Mont IS 3

(ChoKenham and Seiwyni

13 7 4 ‘MJBrittm 1412

(Hampton and Habnscn)

>4 12 5 T Backhouse 16 n

[Winchester ana Mageatwej

>4 9 6 NJustiez 14 8

(WOStmmstsr. Brown UnrverSity

13 6 7 MRGannan i4it

(Shrewsbury and LMBCt

13 2 STR *G R Pootey 14 7

l8crxnams»d. fmoereu

Cambridge

COX L Weiss 7 6

(Harvard and EmruRueO
Average Msrp&c Msnr JOho
■A Blue

undergraduates. Today's is.

This does not necessarily
weaken the event or threaten
its international status and
sponsors' interest. The form
line, taken through tbe Head
of the River, shows that the
Cambridge crew is probably
on a leiel with national stan¬
dards. li is imperative that tbe
Boat Race should be a shop
window for British rowing and
not an American invitational.

Rankov. fine oarsman that
he was. seemingly still does
not understand this. He saw
nothing illogical in taking part
in his record sixth race when a
senior lecturer: and apparently
still considers that it would
have been a laudable objective
to try to keep the 1987 rebels
on board for an allegedly
-greatest crew ever." No doubt
Oxford could find some ma¬
ture-student course fora hand¬
ful of West Indian and
Australian Test cricketers, but
no one could pretend the
resultant team at Lord's would
be representing Oxford.

The irony of tbe revolt
which confronted Topolski

for Oxford, Clark, Hunting-
ton. and the rest of the
American rebels, with no alle¬
giance to a president they did
not elect, did not comprehend
tbe unique nature and myths of
the Boat Race. Huntington has
recently admitted as much.

Topolski, as Huntington
has suggested, did allow pas¬
sion to become possessiveness.
Macdonald was fighting to
save principles more than to
save Topolski as coach. It
should be remembered, as
Macdonald forcefully im¬
pressed upon the Americans,
that the race is built upon 160
years of tradition.

Regatta, recently wrote to the
Master of his old Cambridge
College, Jesus, recommending
more recognition by ad¬
missions tutors of a well-
established phenomenon: that
sportsmen obtain better-than-
average degrees and superior
job-fulfilment compared with
many undergraduates who are
exclusively academic-ori¬
entated. Ask employers.

Professor Colin Renfrew's
response to Burrongh was
disappointingly negative. Yet
the prospects for genuine
undergraduate races are by no
means forlorn, as today may
prove; and as Cambridge regu¬
larly proved with young trews
repeatedly overpowered dur¬
ing Oxford's unbroken domi¬
nance from 1976 to 1985.

“I have a feeling that there
should be a maximum age of,
say, 25," Bnnough says.

The women making
history, page 48

"though it's possible that we
are passing throagh a (gradu¬
ate) phase that has already
gone. What is important is
that the Boat Race should
build up our own oarsmen for
the future, rather than Araeri-

reinforcements, which both
boat dubs misguidedly tend to

graduate cans or Australians. When it

comes to rugby, I know it's
another matter, but with

believe valuable for maintain- cricket, I see no harm in the

ing standards, would be re- universiti
ducediL as this newspaper has standard
repeatedly advocated, ad- Counties.

universities accepting a lesser
standard by playing the Minor

missions tutors would be more
rational in their consideration
of sporting freshmen with
legitimate academic
qualifications.

ild be more Burrougb believed so much
nsideration in tbe undergraduate ethic that
imen with when he was Cambridge presi-
academic dent in 1939, following two
years in successful boats, he

Alan Bnrrougb, benefactor declined to select the Oxford
and guiding light of Henley stroke who bad come as a

postgraduate oriental lan¬
guages student. We should be
able to row with our own
people, and undergraduates
whenever possible.” he says.
So much for Rankov.

Having lost a leg below the
knee in a tank battle at
Tripoli, Burrongh uniquely
rowed with an artifidal foot in
tiie European Championships
coxtess pairs in 1947, reaching
the final with Ronald Morris.
He would like to see a joint
senior Bines committee estab¬
lished to regulate Oxbridge j
selection in all sports. “But I
don't think it will happen," he
says.

His personal purchase of

Temple Island, to help protect
Henley from potential devel¬
opers, has enabled the Regatta
to provide substantial sponsor¬
ship towards international
preparation by tbe Amateur
Rowing Association.

Filling Oxford boats with
Americans may have advanced
tbe Boat Race's publicity in
recent years, but it has not
directly helped British rowing.
It has, of course, helped
Oxford's reputation, because
schools are for the moment
sending their better oarsmen
hi a Dark Bine direction.

Yet these phases also come
and go. What is important is
for the Boat Race, so different
from conventional two-
kilometre (lM-mile) inter¬
national rowing on oon-tida!
water, to retain its character.
Tbe shift towards full time or
international coaches, such as
Pat Sweeney and Mark Lees,
should not be allowed to
remould tbe race into some
kind of international confor¬
mity.

Geneva (Renter) — Heart of
Midlothian, the Scottish Pre¬
mier Division side, have been
fined 100,000 Swiss francs
(162,500) by UEFA for allow¬
ing the borne leg of their
UEFA Cup quarter-final
against Bayern Munich to be
televised live in West
Germany.

The fine, a record for tele¬
vision transmission offences,
was imposed by UEFA yes¬

terday after complaints by the
West German Football
Association (DFB).

Hearts have also been
barred from selling the tele¬
vision rights to any matches
they play in their next Euro¬
pean competition and will
also be liable for any damages
incurred by the DFB and West
German team, VFB Stuttgart.

Hearts have until midnight
on Tuesday to appeal.

Thorburn admits
he over-reacted

By Owen Jenkins

Paul Thorburn, the Welsh mention about the first white-

captain, has admitted that he
"over-reacted” when be
criticized a journalist at a
Welsh Rugby Union banquet
held on the evening of his
country’s victory over Eng¬
land in the five nations'
championship last Saturday.

Speaking for the first time
since the outburst, in an
interview to be broadcast
tonight on the BBC Wales
programme, Sport folio ,
Thorburn says that there were
“added pressures put on the
tbe players and myself" which
led to his outburst, in whicb he
described Stephen Jones, of
The Sunday Times, as “the
scum of the earth”.

Thorburn adds: “f felt a lot
of it was unnecessary and I
over-reacted. With the benefit
of hindsight, I probably would
have worded it slightly dif¬
ferently, but my feelings were
there and I felt something had
to be said. There were a lot of
articles written in the media.

wash, and it does get to you.

“Then there’s the pressure
that if you've lost you knew
what it was going to be like
afterwards. I reacted and un¬
fortunately it’s gone against
me in certain ways."

On the question of whether
his outburst cost him a place
in the British Lions party to
tour Australia this summer,
Thorburn said “Naturally I’m
very disappointed to be left
out but Peter Dodds and
Gavin Hastings have deserv ed
their selection.”

As to his future as Welsh
captain, Thorburn said: “I'm
not exactly sure what the
situation is, but that is a
decision ihe Welsh Rugby
Union has to take. First of all ]
hope to be selected for the
Wales B tour to Canada. We
are in a state of rebuilding at
the moment and there’s a Jot
of hard work to be done. I've
got the semi-finals of the
Schweppes Cup to think about
with Neath, so there’s still a lot

Putterless golf from Stelten

From John Hennossy
La Grande Mottc, France

rhe Mistral misfired, after all.
ind the Flamani Roses
Flamingoes) course here,
ippropnatcly. yielded a host
if birdies and quite a few
ogles on the first day of the
IGF Open golf tournament.

But. if the masterpiece that
he eminent American archi-
ecL Robert Trent Jones, has
rested was humbled, it was a
ompatriot of his who
nought most devastation.

He was Ron Stelten, who
peorded five birdies and an
mprobabtc eagle for a course
fcord 65. seven under par.
V’ith a few players still out on
tic course he led by three
Itots from a trio from Britain
> Sam Torrance. Mark Davis
jtd Andrew Cham Icy. The
older. David Llewellyn, is a
hot further hack.

Stelten went through an
Kiraordinary passage, having
lasted at the 9th, which
iduced him later to remark.

Card of the course

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with good reason: "I was four
under par after five holes and
then I started hitting the
greens".

At the 12th (303 yards) he
holed a 9-iron from 110 yards;
aL the next f 182 yards), having
missed the green with a four-
iron. he found a bad lie in a
bunker and holed out with a
pitching wedge; then at the
14th {399 yards) his nine-iron
rolled off the green and he
chipped in from 15 feet. Thus
on three successive holes he
had had no need of his putter.

After thaL he was. by
comparison, boringly con¬
ventional. putting for birdie

after birdie and succeeding
three more times..

Stelten. who finished 144th
in last year's order of merit
because of a variety of prob¬
lems. both physical and emo¬
tional. has. he says, examined
his head throughout the win¬
ter and feels he has found the
answer in positive thinking.

“Too many golfers dwell
only on their bad shots," He
argues. “I condition myself to
think only of the good ones.”
The next three days will show
whether or not he has found
the secret.

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Bruno sparring
partner is
next for Mason

Terry Armstrong, a sparring
partner for Frank Bruno dur¬
ing the build-up to his bout
with Mike Tyson last month,
is the new opponent for
Bruno's stablemate, Gary Ma¬
son. next Wednesday.

Mason, the unbeaten Brit¬
ish heavy-weight champion,
was originally due to face
Hairy Terrell at Wembley, but
the ageing American was ruled
unsuitable by the British Box¬
ing Board of Control. Arm¬
strong, from Cincinnati,
stayed with Bruno fora month
in Phoenix and then the final
two weeks in Las Vegas.

But the board still has to
approve Armstrong as an
opponent and this is not a
formality. “We will betakinga
dose look at his record and i
then deciding whether to ap¬
prove the fight,” the board
secretary, John Morris, said.

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SPORT

THE TIMES SATURDAY MARCH 25 1989

Ferrari Formula One hghtbac

The starting roar of the engines at
Rio tomorrow marks the end of
the quieter turbos and creates
a milestone in motor racing.
John Blnnsden previews the
chances of a return to triumph
by the once great Italian team

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Montreal

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A s 26 cars and driv¬
ers leave the start¬
ing grid of the
Jacarapagua circuit
□ear Rio de Janeiro
tomorrow afternoon, in a
deafening crescendo of noise
and the inevitable cloud of
tyre and exhaust smoke, a new
era of Formula One racing will
have begun. The muted voice
of turbo-charged engines has
been silenced, their cars con¬
signed to the motor racing
museums after a career that
began in 1977.

In their place is a series of
Jighter-weight cars of
outstanding aerodynamic eff¬
iciency and _

nimbleness pow- ^

ered by a new A/f ft

breed of 3fc-litre .V.
normally aspirated \ajj 1)

and very loud V8. ***

V10 and VI2 en- ijr% n

gines. In recent LL

ycars there have nun,

been too many tfl&LU

changes of For- -fr\Y

mula One rules, JUf

although some ^

were essential, but cJil/i
a period of stabil- r ,

ity has finally ar- QJ Li

rived. Whether the ■ -

sport’s governing
body. FISA, really will give iis
3-litre formula a clear run
until the turn of the century, as
promised, only time will tell.

Goodyear, whose tyres ex¬
clusively kept the wheels of
Grand Prix racing in motion
for the past two seasons, are
again confronted by a rival in
Pirelli, whose return means
that specially-made qualifying
tyres are also back and that
1988 practice lap times will
soon look positively pedes¬
trian. It also means that the
struggling hopefuls towards
the rear of the line-up can no
longer expect to use the same
lyres as the contracted teams
up front.

Yet there is no shortage of
newcomers. This year, 20
teams have assembled 39 cars
and driven, meaning that at
every one of the 16 meetings
13 of them will fell to qualify.
Formula One life will be
tougher than ever for those at
the back.

‘Mansell
will call
up all his
qualities
for that
extra bit
of time’

In a sense it is tougher still
for a team that has once been
at the top but has slipped.
Lotus and Tyrrell are both in
this category, but so is Ferrari.
And it is on the Italian team in
particular that many eyes will
be focused this season as it
strives to recapture some of its
former greatness.

The charisma is still there,
unaffected by Enzo Ferrari's
death last year, but race¬
winning pace has been lack¬
ing, mainly because of the
excessive fuel consumption of
Ferrari's turbo-charged V6 en¬
gine. Gerhard Berger gave
some heroic driving perfor¬
mances last sea-
~~ son, and was the

7 KpJl o°ly 111811 10 inter-

rupt the otherwise
complete dom-
ination by McLar-
/ hie en s A^on Senna

l rtLa and Alain ProsL

'tio C However, the Aus-

■LLcd man's emotional

hrvt vioKwy on Ferrari

tldl home territory at

i V Monza in Sepiem-

\ OH ber was a success

, inherited rather

We titan won, after

Senna had had one
of his occasional
lapses of judgment and
crashed out of the lead. Ferrari
must be pleased that the turbo
years are over. They ran
turbo-charged engines for
eight seasons, during which
they scored just IS victories.
By comparison, McLaren and
Williams, which both ran
turbos for little more than five
seasons, claimed 40 and 23
wins respectively over the
shorter period.

If Ferrari has a trademark
other than the famous Pranc¬
ing Horse symbol, it is the 12-
cylinder engine, around which
so many past successes in
single-seater and sports car
racing have been built
It was no surprise, therefore,
that the team was tempted to
take the 12-cylinder route in
planning a new 3!6~litre nor¬
mally aspirated engine for
1989. despite the constraints
that its extra weight and bulk
compared with the V8 and
VlO alternatives imposed on

Estoril

Jerez

Suzuka

Adelaide

the car designer. John Barnard
has had a busy time. He had
been brought in by Enzo
Ferrari to take charge of
engineering matters at
Maranello, to establish a sat¬
ellite design office and compo¬
nent factory near Guildford.
Surrey, and to design the next-
generation Ferrari Grand Prix
challenger.

Today he no longer has
responsibility for the Italian
end of the operation and is
free to accelerate the dev¬
elopment of the Ferrari 640,
the second Formula One car
he has designed since leaving
McLaren late in 1987.

The first, the 639, built last
year to help with the dev¬
elopment of the new V12
engine and the ingenious
electronically controlled gear¬
box attached to it, will con¬
tinue to be used this year as a
development car at Ferrari's
private test track at Ftorano.
This is where Nigel Mansell

has spent much of his time
since joining the team and
establishing with his long-time
friend, Berger, a partnership
second only to that of Senna
and Prosi in its potential.

The 640. which was first
seen last month and is the
team's definitive 1989 race
car. looks superficially similar
to the interim 639. but is
different in many details. As
with the earlier car. its most
radical feature is the replace-'
ment of the traditional gear
lever by a pair of arms linked
to a central pivot behind the
steering wheel and within
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when he holds die wheel. The
driver simply operates the
lever with his right hand for
upward and with his left hand
for downward changes with¬
out having to remove his grip
from the wheel rim.

He sits considerably lower
in the 640, which is aero-
dynamicaUy more efficient,
has improved cooling capacity
and a different distribution of
fuel in three tanks to improve
the weight balance. The latest
car has a very slim nose hiding
a novel and compact front
suspension, which does away
with conventional coil
springs. A form of active
suspension is expected to be
introduced later in the year.
The bodywork behind the
cockpit is also much slimmer
and the 640 is said to be quite
dose to the 500-kilogram
minimum weight limit.

I t is no secret that
Femur's between-seas-
ons test programme has
had difficulties and dis¬
appointments. But early
reliability problems with vari¬
ous electronic components
seem to have been overcome,
and solid progress is now
being made to improve the
engine's initially disappoint¬
ing power output.

Barnard remains quietly
optimistic: "We are fortunate
in having considerable re¬
sources, as a result of which
we should have the ability to
introduce significant imp¬
rovements on a regular basis
throughout the season. For
example. I expect the cars we
run in the second race, at
lmola, to be considerably
different from our specifica¬
tion for Brazil”

He also expects much from
the team's drivers. “Of course.
I have worked with Gerhard
for more than a year and I
know how good he is, but it
has been very revealing work¬
ing with Nigd,** be says.

“Like Berger, he is very
quick indeed — it's probably
too early to tell whether or not
he is actually any quicker, bat
the important thing is they are
certain to bring out the best in

1989 FORMULA ONE UNE-U?

DRIVER

NO

1 Ayrton Senna (Br) Age 29

2 Alain Proat (Fr) 34

3 Jonathan Palmar (GB) 32

4 Mcha l a Alborato (tt) 32

5 Thierry Boutsan (Bel) 31

6 Rfeeardo Patraaa (It) 34

7 ’Martin Bnmrfto (GB) 29

8 ‘Stotano Modena (It) 25

9 Dank Warwick (GB) 34

10 Eddie Cheewer (US) 31

11 Nalaon Piquet (Br) 36

12 Satoru Nakapma (Japan) 36

15 Maurido Guge&nin (Br) 25

16 Ivan Capaffl (It) 25

17 *Piefcarto GNnzani (It) 37

18 -Nicola LarM (If) 25,

19 Aleaeandro NannW (IQ 29,

20 Johnny Herbert (GB) 24

21 Andrea da Cesaris (H) 29

22 ‘Alex Caffl (R) 25

23 Piertutgf Martini (It) 27

24 LutaSala(Sp)29

25 Rene Amoux (Fr) 40

26 OMer (frouNard (ft) 30

27 Nisei Manxes (GB) 34

28 Gerhard Berger (Austria) 29

29 Yannick Dafanas (Fr) 27

30 PftMppe AMot (Fr) 34

31 Roberto Moreno (B0 30

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director, Ron Dennis, that
sooner or later his team's
overwhelming domination of
the Grand Prix scene would be
effectively challenged.

“From which direction
would you most expect this
challenge to emerge?^ I asked
him. “From Ferrari,’’ came
his unhesitating reply.

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can 'really lean on it’. When he
gets it to that state, bell
summon up all his personal
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bit of time one of himself"
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By John BhmsdaT

Martin Bnindle’s return to
Formula One racing got off to
a fine start in Rio de Janeiro
yesterday when the King’s
Lynn driver put. his new
Brabham-Judd at the top of
we list of the pre-qualifying
times fortomorrow’s Brazilian
Grand Prix.

Thirteen ca^ and drivers
nave to take part in this
preliminary elimination con-

Yamahaialsoweni through to
the mam practice and qualify¬
ing periods^ However, Alex
Caffi (paQara^Fbn!) who had
bcsn^tpcictedto provide the
main ppposgtioa to the two
Brabhajfrdn^icxsjast failed to
avoid ih&cuL . ; -
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aft^:pa<aiiglinsimlial test so
comfortably: **Tbe car fat
realty vepcceCent and it was

IS to decide which of ibeni gotidtoTed the dfomfso trice
can go forward, to the main atktgrippy_4fw«w ynpH^tain

pre-race practice and quafify-.
tng sessions. Normally, only
the fastest four will he allowed
through, but in Rio yesterday
a fifth car was admitted
because Philippe StreifFs ac¬
cident while testing last week
has reduced the number with
guaranteed entries from 26
cars to 25, and a total of 30
cars are allowed to compete
for the eventual 26 starting
places.

Brundle's time of lmin
-7.764sec, which was set with
the aid of special Pirelli
qualifying tyres, was slightly
quicker than Ayrton Senna's
pole position time with Iris
McLaren-Honda last year,
when everyone was running
on Goodyear control tyres.

His Brabham team partner
Stefano Modena, was
comfortably the second quick¬
est amongst the other pre-
qualifiers, and Gregor Fohek
(EuroBrun-Judd), Nicola
Larini (Osella-Ford) and
Bemd Schneider (Zakspeed-

BRAZ1UANGP

Rk> da Janeiro

tips? level of p erform ance on
Sunday 1 see no reas on why w e
should not achieve a- top K)
finish in the race.”

TheXGS team have "ran-
- npunced that, the ftafian
driver Gabriele Tarqmni will
replace "Straff who was to
have led their team- this
season, but is now confined to
a bed in a Paris hospital,
having been flown back from
Brazil . .after , undergoing an
tiheigf^cy'opdaBon in Brazil
on his severriy-ixyured back.

Tarqnini had been ex p ecte d
to drive-in Formula One for
the new FIRST team-this
season, but only fast week it
was confirmed that this new
lean* would be defening ins
Grand Prix 'dqj&t for a year.
The British driver, Julian
Bafley; was another driver
tipped for ; the . vacant AGS
s^'lmt for the time being iris
Formula One aefivstics wm be
confined to the!rofegf reserve
driver* for The;; larrousse-

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THE BRITISH CHALLENGERS

MQEL MANSELL: Bom #&&&'
1954. Lives on tale
Grand Prix: Austria 1980 tec Lbtustw
Raced foe Lotus : 19BO«4;.$p^taV
1985-88; Fennri1989. GPwtaKTOr:
12 pole positions, 10 fastest taps..
GP total points: 214 in 119 races. '
Runner-up In worid drivers*, champs.:
ionshfaln 1S86and 87. *

DEREK WARWICK: Bbm AraSjtL'
28, 1954. Lives or Jareby,’first
Grand Prbc USA 1981for Totemtot.
Raced for Totoman 1981-83: B# 1
nautt 1984-85; Brabham 1986; Ar¬
rows 1987-89. GP wins: none (best
results 2nd In Britt* and Belgian
GP in 1984), two fastest tape: <3B ;
total points: 54 in 100 i

JONATHAN PALM Kb Bom
November 11, .1958.:;Lives at:
DogmerafleM, Hampshire. Bret.
Grand Prbc European ’1983 for .

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MAHrtN{BRUN 01 £-aofTT June.1,
1959~ liVB£'J3ayton, r new King’s
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86; 2Bkspbe<tt9eT;'Bn*ham 198ft
GPWinsr'nooB^best (Mutt second
aiOetroit fa198«). GP total paints:

In S4.-.^igw, Won .World
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JOHNNY wrafe a rfe Borri Juris 27.
-1964. lives: ftomtoftL Essex-1987
BritM) r Formola Three ‘Champion.
Raced JtormutaJOOO. Iaar a e eson
before being sjgrwd vp, by Benetton
far l8rdebut.Frsafari mteyear.

McRae chases success

Jimmv McRae, of Sajria^d.-..
bids 'for his turd, successive!,
victory in the Chcrnl of Ireland
Rally when 76 cars set out for
the three-day event from flcHasi
today. •;■

McRae, the present Brush..
Open champion, was out-paced j
by the new Toyota of David;
Llewellin in the openinground'
of the Shell British Champ¬
ionship in the Yorkshire Forests
last month, but, on the tarmac
roads of Ireland, the extra power
of McRae’s Ford Sierra, should

'provejdedsiye. . > TT’/"-

: ^IJewdrti^-who has done wdl
in- Ireland m the past, will be
hoping forras-mudr rain; shew
and genenri^treactiery as .the

IriSb^weaftrerdah muster to hap
bta chances!. Rdiabfoty still
. bef.his main'priori^ and a top
THfoe fraish' would set him tip
nicely, fer tbe ihifo ipitiKl in ins
rtativo-WaiejC 1 ".

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and Gwyndaf'tivans,all ■ in
Sierras, "cl^»: .McR^e.hard
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MOTOR CYCLING

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Lawson will dtefeiid

his title with ftasda

they will be^tri^sepajae: 1 teams.
Ganfoer; wOLna^- witir feUow-
Australian, Mkba^Pqohan, ra
the- officral -fecfoiytanywfaik
Lawson wffl Hcfe Tw^^sistcr
team under ihe piamgy^ent of
Erv KaaanQfo, .

Lawsop^cb-^i^noned a hew

Eddie Lawson, the world motor
cycling champion, wiD-bt^m his

defence of the 500cc Otie m.

Japan tomorrows Afler ax.
highly successful yea^s with
Yamaha, during which he won
the world champioiiship-three
times —in 1984, 1986 and 1588
- Lawson has s^K3red, L io

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Gardner was the fust Austin- - champion,-
li^t?win the 500 gc title and

S3 he found rit difficult ta another attempts m ,fbr-
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Touch and
go hut
Wigan
fayoifirite^

By Kri^AfAddm .

Most rugby, league foBowen
believe that p ow er fill , iu-fixm.
Wlgaa win wm today’s SOk Cat
challenge cop semifinal against
WvriDgtM-u Marne Road,
Manchester, where a crowd of
about 30,000 is enMeted. Wigan
are having one or their irresist-
iNespefis when victories roll off
the assembly line, while
Warrington straggle, emerging
from tbe threat of retegstkxs
with" the victory over Halifax
last week.

One man who does not
anticipate the formality of a
Wjgan win is.the coach at

Central P*ik.Gjaham Lowe. He
said yesterday: “Whop we

played Wamnsfon fotiie league
recently *r wadospooi, they
pve us the hardest game we
hawe had all mno. K was touch
raid go right to the end and we
<tid well to get away with it.
Warrington -always produce
their box form against us, and
tbe .g erm-final will be no
exception,”

Warrington are s tre ng t hened
in the pad by tire return of
Steve Roach, but much wOI
depend on whether he and his
Mow Australian front-row for¬
ward, Les Boyd, can curb their
notorious tempers. If they do.
they will put beef into a padc led
by Mflce Gregory, a Great
B ritain player.

Despite their s c r um half in¬
jury problems, Warrington can
call upon one of the most skilful
raid elusive half backs in tbe
business in John Woods, and if
he is on form he can be a match
winner. Against this there is the
inevitable Wjgan array of inter¬
national talent, with Lowe able
to choose his squad from his foil
complement of ptayen. For tbe
font time this season, the Wigan
patty is free from injury.

Anything can happen, as St
Brians proved when they over¬
turned the odds against Widnes
in the first semi-finaL Lowe
believes that tbe wider pitch will
suit his ptayers, wbo like to run
with the ball, but he is the last
person to underestimate a team
wbidi-has shaken Wigan several
times in recent seasons. Wigan
should win and return to Wem¬
bley .to defend the trophy, hut it
will be dose.

More woe
as Miller
walks out

ByStidiMaddin

challengers- for -,-lhti. champ¬
ionship. wifo Nta^Mactfctmc,
of B ri fcun. >teo ona^Yamaha.

A woeful season for Hull Kings¬
ton Rovers took a further
wretched turn when Gavin
Miller, their Australian forward,
walked out on the dub before
the traditional holiday derby
match. It appears that Miller
requested more, money to re¬
main and play, and when this
was refused, he booked bis
ticket and flew home to Austra¬
lia. David Bishop took his place
at loose forward yesterday.

Colin Hutton, the Rovers
chairman, attempted to defuse
the situation by saying that
Miller’s contract was nearly up
anyway, and that he would not
have played because of an
injury, but there is no doubt that
Miller’s defection is. a bitter
disappointment The player will
prcibably return next season to
play for Leeds, Wigan or St
Helens.

. Things continued to go wrong
from the start of a match that
almost certainly r e pre se n ted
Rovers’ last chance of scraping
out of tbe relegation zone. -

Royers had the benefit of a
Humberside gale m the first
hal£ bat it proved as m uch a
disadvantage as a boon, .with the
ball firing into touch without
bouncing on many occasions.

Hull scored two excellent tries
before-half time. Pearce dived
over after a Dannatt plunge,
then O'Hara finished off and
eight-man move started in the
Hun half by Blacker. Pearce
buttled the goal to his own try,
and Rovers’ only reply was a
penalty goaJ by Mike Fletcher.

Rovers attempted to inject
more life into their game in the
second half with Porter. Ema
and -Bishop showing- spirited
form in the pock, but their effort
was killed off when Ema was
injured and then Huffs Welsh
stand-off half. Pearce, sold an
impudent dummy to the sleep-
ing-Rovers defence, and trotted
round to the posts. He kicked
the goal and Hull had the game
in their pockets.

Pearce ran in his third try and
took his goals total to three fora
per so n a l match tally of 13
points and Price also toadied'

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Hong Kong refute
eligibility protest

By Richard Eaton

Hong Kong yesterday denied The Hong Kong Table Tennis

allegations that they had used
ineligible players in their wom¬
en’s team that beat England 3-1
in the final of the Butterfly
Commonwealth championships
at Cardiff

During Thursday’s final,
Chan Tan Lui, aged 20, un¬
expectedly made her first
appearance for Hong Kong and
beat both Alison Gordon and
Lisa.Lomas.

Neither Chan nor her col¬
league Chai Po Wah should
have played, a letter addressed
to the Secretary of the Common¬
wealth Table Tennis Associ¬
ation said. It alleges that the two
players came from mainland
China and had not been resident
in Hong Kong for the obligatory
two years. But the senders
remain anonymous, merely call¬
ing themselves The Justice
Group”;

The England captain. Donald
Parker, said: “I don’t want h to
sound tike sour grapes but they
used strong players we had not
seen before. We trust the nec¬
essary checks have been taken
on their eligibility.” However,
the chairman of the Common¬
wealth Table Tennis Associ¬
ation. Horace Mallen, said the
association had not officially
received tbe letter and as it was
unsigned, there was no respon¬
sibility to pursue the matter.

Association was adamant it had
done nothing wrong. There are
rumours, but our players are
eligible,” the secretary, Lau
Kwok Chu, said. The govern¬
ment pays 70 per cent of our
expenses. If we playedsomeone
who was not qualified the
government would take away
our money".

RESULTS: MBIT* llnnlu Urt round: N Tytef

MUM) ht D PMjm (Guam&oy). 21-9. »-«.

21-ft E Kuw Am) bt T Manning (Bar-
badoa).21-12. IB-21,21-10, 21-17; JTaytor

©lfl)«D3iBfi(Kiin).21-8,21-11.1B2l 1 21-

1% u onraeoa (&V) M D Mdhoy (Scot 21-
11.21-10, 21-14; O BUur (Eng) bt A Brans

(WrtML 2321. 21-13. 21-lft T Orman

MgMa)blAShswan(N2L2l-lB.2l-l3.21-
17; A Ansxagorou (Cyprus) Dt N Main (Km).
21-lft 21-14:21-18; A Danrnxi flra) bt A
McttacNs (Scot, 21-lft 21-lft 2220; B
WrigratSeo)« MAuaxagorau (Cyprus). 2V
10, 2123. 21-11, 21-lft bSwd (Ena) bt M
ThomssjWUM), 21-ft 21-1ft 21-ft P JacMon
(NZ) bt EBM (Jariay). 21-11.21-lft 21-14; J
Np uABIchaiii(6uianawL21-9.21-lft

21-uC 21-14, . _. _

award Scot 21-12.21-12.2M

n

(End Kb Cronin (Jarauft 2i-1ft_2l-lft 21-

ift G Enns (VWas) M Eskaan

t (Bwbados).

21-11,21-13,21-13; W Almad Ngoria) bt M

Midtoy (GuarnM. 212.21-7.21-ftS Hama
(MWis) ta B CUtoar(k*Q. 21-lft 21-lft 21-
ifc H mhm (Ni) m NMim (Wai). 21 -14.
21-17. 21-11: 0 Haaaira (Anatrta) bt N
Danoch (NZL 21-14.1321.1B21.21-12.21-

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GOLF

Finney keeps her cool
while Johnson buckles

From Patricia Davies, Phoenix, Arizona

Tbe British contingent of four
acquitted themselves ade¬
quately on the first day of the
Phoenix Classic at Moon Valley,
with no one scoring worse than a
75, but Allison Finney, a

S oumeywoman professional
rom Wmnetka, Illinois, took
ihe lead with a round of 66,
seven under par.

Finney was two shots ahead of
Beth Daniel, but found that,
since she was last ouL almost
everybody else had gone home
by the lime she birdied her last
four holes to move out in front,
her moment of glory was muted.

She started with three birdies
and' made her only mistake at
the first bole, her 10th, where*
she missed a putt of no more
than two feet.

Finney was delighted that she
did not get nervous when foe
realized that she was playing
well but the same could not be
said for Trish Johnson, of
Britain. She was three under par

after 10 but finished on 73, level
par, and said disgustedly; “How
can you get nervous when you’re
hilling the ball and scoring well?
It’s ridiculous.”

Daft it my be. but it is a
common fact of the competitive
golfing life and, with luck.
Johnson will get used to it and
overcome it.

Pam Wright, of Scotland, also
faltered late in her round,
dropping shots at the 15th and
16th m what foe described as a
fit of carelessness and her 75
means she cannot afford such
mistakes in the second round if
she is to qualify.

FIRST ROUND LEADERS (US unless
Slated): 8ft A Forney 6ft B Daniel. 6ft P
Hammmet J Pftcock. 7fc S Qumtin; J
Rosemtwl; J Siepbenson (Ausfc C HiS 71;
L Garaaci. Ok-Hoe Ku IS Koiaa), p R)2»;
T Green; M Berteotti; K Stxpman. Other
scotuk 73s M ngwras-Dotn |Spj. C
Pwce (GBfc T Johnson (GBk A-M Pair
(FQ7S: PWrjgmtGBhN Looez. L Paws
1681.

POWERBOATING

Foiled by the elements

lty Mulmhn Mrl^ g

BRA3UAN

GRATa)flRlX

onifiB IE mml

- r roi p a saHiB^ ;

Appalling weather and sea con¬
ditions in tbe Nor* Sea yes¬
terday blew away the attempt by.
flan Voyagenr, the revolu¬
tionary powered trimaran of
.deaagiKr, Niret Irens, and skip¬
per,. Mark Pridic, U>. voyage
nonslop round Britain in under
90 honra

At 1230pm Ban Voyageur,
whifo has a cockpit open to the
fill! firry of the elements, put
into Monzrose on the Scottish
east coast to pump out the ton or
so ofsea^water in her bQges and
cive ter battered crew a rest,
from Force 10 winds and seas
ninnfog between 25 and 30 feet

At SJOpm, with no let-up in
fife' weather -and with oil rig-

supply vessels staying in port..
Pridic prudently decided to

remain alongside until the wea¬
ther moderates.

Although the derision eff¬
ectively means an end to the
record attempt, Han Voyageur
win not take on fuel in Montrose
and as soon as she can will go
back to sea, to complete her
primary mission of voyaging
round Britain without
refilling.

: The boat is a test bed for
designer Irens’ theories on low
technology, fuel-effirient, high
speed sea transport, inspired
partly by his work on sailing
roum-buUvwhtcb use only the
wind for motive power and
.■partly try tbe unrefoetkd round
the wodd flight of the American
aviation pioneer, Bert Rutan.

ra

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YACHTING

Flyer is still
keeping a
winning tack

Flyer, designed by Rob Hum¬
phreys ana steered by Mike
Hobbs, of Britain, raised her
winnings to $66,666 (about
£37,000) by taking the second
race of the four-day Ziplock
Ultimate 30 Regatta in San
Francisco on Thursday (Mal¬
colm McKeag writes).

In a tight-weather race with
continual place changing, the
Marcus Huufomson-designcd
Chattanooga Chew-Chew,
sailed by Mark Ploch, finished
second but was penalized for
having missed the final gale.

Yesterday the Ultimate 30s
were scheduled to take a lay-
day.

■i

FOOTBALL

McNeill may introduce
a new firm up front

By Roddy Forsyth

Three dubs are engaged over the
next seven days in fixtures
which will greatly influence the
destination of the season’s hon¬
ours. Celtic and Dundee United
meet this afternoon at Park-
bead, cad) aware that defeat
would diminish their hopes of
winning the championship; in
Celtic's case, their defence of it
would become virtually
hopeless.

Billy McNeill is obliged to
make changes in the home
selection- Having failed to se¬
cure a replacement for
McAvennie. the manner of
■whose departure has disturbed
supporters, the Celtic manager
seems certain to offer Walker
and McGhee the chance to
establish a forward partnership.

Coyne, the recent £500,000
signing from Dundee, will make
his home debut, as will
McCahiU, who arrived from
Dumbarton a few weeks ago.
McCahilTs inclusion is nec¬
essary because McCarthy is
suspended after his dismissal
last Saturday.

For Dundee United this fix¬
ture extends their present con-

By Roddy Forsyth

cent with ihe OKI Firm. Having
drawn 2-2 with Rangers in the
Scottish Cup quarter-final last
Tuesday, they must mem the
Ibrox team again on Monday.
United are in tbe happy position
of having a full-strength squad.
They add Curran to the pool
which was on duty in midweek.

Rangers will attempt io ex¬
tend their League leadership
against Hibernian at Easter
Road, knowing that time is
evaporating for their principal
rivals. Rangers free three away
games in succession and if they
emerge victorious from Mon¬
day's meeting with Dundee
United and next Saturday’s visit
to Celtic, they will be emphatic
frvourites to complete a clean
sweep ofbonours.

They must continue to do
without the suspended Brown,
but Ferguson joins their squad.
Hibs, too, have a target, in this
case a place hr the TJefa Cup
next season, and Archibald is in
their pool, despite his request
for a transfer.

St Mirren are two pom is
behind Hibs in tbe quest for the
remaining European place and

hope u> use the players who were

responsible for the 4-1 defeat of
Dundee United two weeks ago.
Lambert, however, has a poi¬
soned foot and will have to pass
a late fitness test.

Aberdeen, unbeaten for the
past four League games, are in
third place, separated by goal
difference from Dundee United.
Sndders, the Pittodrie goal¬
keeper, was in action for The
Netherlands against the Soviet
Union in midweek and was
much praised for his part in a
2-0 Dutch victory.

Gordon Wallace yesterday
completed his first signing as
Dundee manager when be
brought Albert Craig to Dens
Park from Newcastle United for
£100,000. He will play against
MotherwelL Craig’s former
club, Hamilton Academical,
entertain Heart of MidtethiiD,
Aeries having not played at
home in 10 fixtures. For ob¬
vious financial reasons, they
would be grateful if tbe gales and
rain which swept Scotland yes¬
terday have abated enough to
guarantee tbe match taking
place.

Rovers do not hit Sudbury

promotion form

By Ian Ross

Oidham Athletic_1

Blackburn Rovers_1

Blackburn Rovers moved up to
thud place ra the second di¬
vision yesterday but foiled to
produce tire form needed to win
promotion.

Afler a month in which they
have picked up five points out
of a possible 18, Rovers may
have to accept that a more
realistic target is the end-of-
season play-offs in which their
hopes of first division football
perished 12 months ago.

On a well-sanded, artificial
surface made all the more
treacherous by a swirling wind
which at times threatened to
reach gale-force proportions,
Oldham performed with more
composure than did their oppo¬
nents in an opening period
which, despite the conditions,
was entertaining.

Blackburn produced the mo¬
ments of class, but their more
ambitious forward thrusts came
to little or nothing as the home
side's co m prehensive and, for
once, snccessfii! offside trap
held the balance of power.

With errors of judgement
nlmnct gg commonplace as ac¬
curate passes, chances of any
note were something of a rarity
and it took a piece of
improvization in the fifth
minute to break a fragile dead¬
lock. Inevitably, the goal went to
Oldham, who had wisely chosen
to play with the wind, at their
backs in the opening half

Wright, released down the left
flank by a pass from Milligan,
crossed deep into the Blackburn
penalty area and at the moment
the ban seemed destined to drift

behind, Kelly stole in un¬
announced to scene from an
acute angle.

Palmer should have extended
that lead before tbe interval, but
he could do no more than drive
tamely into tbe legs of Gennoe.
the Blackburn goalkeeper, after
a fine kick by Irwin had caused
consternation in the visitors'
defence.

The quality of the game
dipped in the second half, in
which the referee confounded
both teams with needless
interventions.He did not, how¬
ever, interfere when Blackburn
climaxed a spell of vastly im¬
proved football with an ex¬
cellent equalizer in the 65th
minute.

A cross from Reid which hung
on the wind looped over the
head of Marshall and fell at the
feet of Garner, who drilled
home a shot from eight yards
after having struggled to estab¬
lish comroL

OLDHAM ATHLETIC: J Hidtoonh; O Irwin,
E Barrett J Italy, I Marshal, P Skipper. R
Palmar. A RUcmb, T Henry. M Mffigan, T
Wright

BLACKBURN ROVStt: T Gamoa; M
Attdrra, C Sufly, N Reid. C Hendry (sub; T
Diamond), K HA. H Gayle. J Mfar, A
Kennedy. S Gamer. S Seiers (sub: R
HUderetey).

RefAree: T Hoftrook.

In the black

Three balance sheets issued by
Halifax Town Football Club
from April 1, 1985 to June 30.
1988 show losses of £118,000
and £163,000, and a profit of
£83,000 which resulted from a
£142,000 gram from the major¬
ity shareholders, CalderdaJe
Council. Halifax now have a
bank surplus of around
£100,000 after transfer profits.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS

Barclays League
Second division

OLDHAM p) 1 KACKBRN 09 1
Kelly Gamer

11,752

WATFORD <19 0 C PALACE (Q) 1
15,195 Barber

PW D L
Chaisea 352011 4

Manchester Crty 3519 9 7
Blackburn 3617 811
West Bromwich 351513 7
Ipsarictl 3517 513

VVWftnl 3415 811

Swindon 331411 8

Bo u mamo u tn 3418 513

CPalace

Stoke

LseeslAd

Barnsley

Portsmouth

Sunderland

Oldham

Oxford

Plymouth

Bradford

Hull

Bngnton

Shrewsbury

Banungtran

Walsall

331410 9
331410 9
351214 9
34121210
351210 T3
35111113
35101312
38 91512
35101114
3411 815
35 91313
3410 816
3510 718
34 51415
34 5 0 20
34 41119

F APS
72 37 71
58 33 66
58 51 59
53 32 58
56 45 58
48 37 53
50 40 53
43 42 53
50 40 52
43 47 52

46 39 50
48 48 48

43 43 46

44 47 44
43 50 43
60 58 42

47 49 41
39 48 41
38 45 40
42 54 38

45 52 37
27 51 29
20 55 24
29 57 23f

ThW division

BRENTFRD (0)
10951

WoNert u mpton

Port Vafe

Sheffield Utd

Ftiffiun

Preston

Bristol R

Swansea

Bury

Chester

Nous County

Bristol C

Huddersfield

Brantford

M ansfield

Nortmpmn

Reading

Bolton

Cardiff

Blackpool

Southend

Chesterfield

Wigan

Afoorehot

GMngham

O FULHAM
Cola

PW D L F
3322 7 4 77
3318 9 6 60
3119 5 7 70
3517 612 54
351511 9 62
331511 7 54
341511 8 44
3515 911 52
3314 910 47
34121012 44
3313 713 36
3313 614 41
32111011 45
34101311 36
3513 418 50
34101014 48
3310 914 38
3110 912 32
33 91113 39

33 81114 38
3510 520 38
31 7 915 35

34 61018 34

35 6 425 31

( 0 ) 1

A Pts
33 73

33 63
35 B2
50 57

43 56
37 56

34 58
48 54
48 51

39 46

40 46
50 45

44 43

39 43

58 43
54 40

42 39

43 39

40 38
56 35
68 35
43 30

59 28
65 22

GM Vauxhafl Conference

BARNET (Q) 2 WEUJNG (2) 3
Stsoi. Reas Bukfcar£Whte

3,006

VAIDCHALL OPEL LEAGUE: Premier <8-
«Mok LaytonstcmHlfoRJ *. Croydon l;
Fambanxjgh 1. Windsor and Eton 0.
BEAZER HOMES LEAGUE: Premier <S*
vWoife bath 2, Merthyr a

Rugby League

STONES BITTER OMMPIONSMP: Brat,
division: Hull 26, Hufl KR 2. Second
(SvWon: Runcorn 6. Kogniey 34; York ft
Sheffield 21: Wbrkmgton 5, Whitehaven-
12; Leigh 14. Choriey 6.

go for
them all

By Paul Newman

Sudbury Town travel to
Hungerford Town today for the
first leg of their FA Vase semi¬
final, hoping to make up for the
disappointment of going out at
the same stage 12 months ago.
However, their opponents will
also be looking to break new
ground, having lost on both
their previous appearances in
the semi-finals, in 1978 and
2980.

Sudbury have already ac¬
counted for two of this season's
favourites, Rossendale United
and Bashley, and have conceded
only one goal in the com¬
petition. They are still in three
other cups and are also in
contention for the Jewson East¬
ern Counties League
championship.

Money, a forward, is sus¬
pended for Sudbury, but
Hungerford have the greater
selection problems. Injuries
have ruled out Gary Goodwin,
one of tbe joint player-man¬
agers, and Bale, the captain, for
the rest of the season.

Tbe two other semi-finalists,
Tam worth, who have home
advantage in the first leg, and
North Ferriby United, have
never reached this stage of the
Vase before. North Ferriby are
rarely watched by crowds of
more than 200 m the Northern
Counties East League, but
Tam worth regularly attract
attendances of more than 1,000
in the Beazer Homes L eague.

Seeded teams
for World
Cup named

Milan (AP) — Joao Havelange,
the chairman of the Inter¬
national Football Federation
(FIFA), was reported yesterday
as saying that Italy, Argentina,
Brazil, West Germany, Belgium
and France will be the seeded
teams in the 1990 World Cup.

The Brazilian official added
that Spain and England would
take over if some ofdie seeds do
not qualify for the final rounds
of next year’s competition in
Italy.

Italy and Argentina are the
only certain qualifiers as both
teams have been exempted from
qualifying matches — the first as
representative of the host coun¬
try and the Inner as defending
the champions.

Havelang£r-m an interview
with Italy's largest sports daily
newspaper Gazzeua deilo Sport.
of Milan, emphasized, however,
that seeds will not be a decisive
factor under a formula provid¬
ing that three teams, out of four,
in four rounds, out of six,
qualify for the eifoth finals.

THE GOLF BALL
HAS COME
A LONG, LONG
WAY.

New Pinnacle Gold has exploded onto the scene.

Even more power and distance and, with the new
dimple pattern, more control.

This, together with the no-cut Surlyn cover and
choice of 90 and 100 compression, means we’ve just
about driven the golf ball THE NEW

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THE

flURDAY MARCH 25 1989

RUGBY UNION; HARLEQUINS MUST END THEIR LEICESTER HOODOO AND NULLIFY THE EFFORTS OF THE PROLIFIC HA RE TO REACH THE CUP FINALA

"-“T " 5 Glasgow is
awarded
a tour of
Japan

Bath send SOS to
Simpson for stiff
task at Kingsholm

By David Hands
Rugby Correspondent

When Dick Best, coach to the
Harlequins, heard that
Leicester bad selected Rory
Underwood and Barry Evans
as wings for today's Pil kington
Cup semi-final at the Stoop
Memorial Ground he was not
displeased. Internationals
though they be, he felt his
players knew what to expect

No sootier was his back
turned (business lakes him to
Portugal this weekend), than
Evans withdrew because of
the calf muscle be strained in
last Sundays B international
in Piacenza. So Tony Under¬
wood joins his older brother
for the fust time and provides
more of an unknown quantity,
despite the plethora of repre¬
sentative games in which he
has played this season.

Whether any of the four
wings plays an influential role
depends on the weather. “If
this rain keeps up you won’t
see much thrilling rugby.”
Best said as Harlequins, the
holders, prepared to meet
Leicester for the fourth time in
the knockout competition.

Leicester beat the London
club 16-9 in the 1980 semi¬
final (at Twickenham) and
won both the 1983 and 1986
quarter-finals, one home and
one away. The Stoop holds no
fears for them and they will
have the fervenL support of
over 3,000, who have not seen
their side in a cup final for six
years. And though sentiment
plays little part in rugby, the
Tigers would love to help
Ham — in whose honour the
1980 grand slam England side
will gather at a dinner next

Gloucester coach, is well

Today’s teams ^ ti ° f n . ,he dUEc “ liiisofa

At Stoop MBTTional On*md “Bath are brilliant at ac-

HAJtLEQUMS: S TTxosfuJC E Davis. J t nalh / winninp marches and
Salmon, A Thompson. J Eagle: R Cromb. JHauy winning matcnes ana

c Luxton: p cu«s. j Diver, a MuBns, m they do so even when they
SS&^BSJT P ‘“’•“ofMayriBiaid.-We
Leicester: w Haro; t Urrfmood. p could have done without

cumorth! ^s°rSot, t king dm wu against them but.

ThoAar. WRfcnanteon. J ‘.Ywt, M in an odd way, this gives US

rwSS?™ 014 ’ T SmW1, 1 Sm * h ’ 0 our best chance of winning the
Mmme i ftaenma (East Mutants). cup, because playing on our

At Kingsholm own ground is more help to us

Gloucester; T Smith; J btmza, r than if we were to meet Bath

JGadcLJEthendge.NScrivans.ISflMh.B Twickenham.
wk a LufRsdon: a Sunfi, s Hnoidiw. j .There have bract three pro-
Gascon. b Travasws: s Ban»s. r hh; g vtous meetings between these
£*£*!*,n clubs, too, the last one hi the

Momsai, N Rodman, A Robinson, D , npc „ • r . . • 7 -_

Eqwwn. 196 5 semi-final when Tim

Rafanm R Outttanton (London). Smith scored two tries but

DAin. it mnoimiii n jwmi q r w wr, u _ .. - --

Gascon. Birwaawss Bames. R«ftG vtous meetings between these
£*£*!*,n dubs, too, the last one in the

Momswi, N Rodman, A Rotxnson, D , OOK „ • _._ 7 -_

Egwwn- <96? semi-final when Tim

BetoreRQumanan (London). Smith scored two tries but

— at Kingsholm
month — to another Twick- (for the first time in 17 years)

wiham appearance in his final
season.

12-11. Smith is Gloucester’s
full back again today and is

ir Harlequins, though, are on second only to Hare in the
le a successful roll; the full- national points-scoring charts
If strength side has not lost since but his effect will hinge on the
*t November and even though banle royal fought out be-
” Carling is absent, Salmon is tween the packs.

there to exercise a calm,
controlling influence. He will

Both clubs like to ruck, both
have chunky scrum halves

A Tiger among his sheep; Pasty Hare, a record-breaking fid! back for both England and Leicester, oa his farm near Newark

An old routine nearing its end

share, with Stuart Thresher, with an eye for the gap and
the kicking duties — two men supportive back rows. Bath's
to try and outgun Hare, the is better known but GJouces-
sharpest shooter in the coun- tar’s, even without the injured
uy. The difference between Teague, commands respect,
the sides at the end may well Bath still have a slight doubt

be the odd goal kick.

over Hall's recovery from an

There is a thunderous qual- ankle injury and have asked The welL-estabfisfaed routine nSSL, JSentohfa, bv E
ity about the other semi-final, Simpson to return early from mil not have varied for the members of Leicester RFC at a

where 10,300 will pack a holiday in France in case he Pil kington Cap semi-final today special ««—«« • last Tuesday

Kingsholm to see if Gtoncestef is needed. againrt Harlequins. “Let's hope testified to that. They appre-

can repeat last month’s feat The winners? Bath, already » ***** “©-nonsense, an-

, ,. « .. Ti -. .I,—,i— i-- —~,L. champagne one. Hare says, if pry ^f j^ approach to

By Mick Oeary 19 points of breaking his own

_. 1Lr . ,_ dab record of 396 in a season.

“My rugby life has always His memor y is rather donated
foUoweda very set routine,” says also XmtfL lasttime he foiled
Dusty Hare, MBE, the Leicester to scon for Leicester. Not
and former England foil back, mprhutg really, for it was 179
Very edgy from nerves cm a nmesm-*o
Friday night; drank on a Sat- fUre/though. is much more
nrday night and eefey with « tha^anod^list effects and
hangover cm Sunday. Cfenros. The warmth of the

pe welLestaW^ roafom ™Sn gfrenTS by X
wm mu lave varied for the members of Leicester RFC at a
Pilklngton Cup semi-final today special test Tuesday

again£ Harlequins. “Let’s hope SSed ^ They appnJ

years. And though sentiment and down Bath. That, albeit the league winners, are the
plays little part in rugby, the on a night when Bath were favourites and Leicester the
Tigers would love to help missing their four England outsiders; it would be no
Hare — in whose honour the players, brought to an end surprise, though, to see both
1980 grand slam England side their unbeaten season but today’s horae clubs in the final
will gather at a dinner next Keith Richardson, the on April 29.

Young ruled out for Cardiff

it is. it is mare than likely that «une as mochas Ms remarkable
Hare will have played a huge feats of goal
part in advancing Leicester's bid Y et sTmOdTretiting pereon-
for a fourth cup success this ality does mask a passionately

decade.

competitive

Hare, aged 36. will retire at within. When he was dropped by
the end of this season after 19 fa jpgi be was dev-

years of first-class rugby, la that asSedT Faflure hurt.

time he has become a walking
statistic.

When he was recalled a year
later be responded in the best

No sooner had he been named
in the British Lions tour party
on Wednesday than David
Young, the Welsh tight-head
prop, was forced to withdraw
from the Cardiff team to play
the Barbarians today. The
aggravation of an old thumb
injury will also keep him out ol
the Schweppes Welsh Cup semi¬
final against Neath in a fort¬
night’s time.

This will be a worry for the
Lions management since Young

By David Hands

damage sustained against Scot¬
land in January- A problem with
an old fracture of the thumb
recurred during Tuesday's game
against Bristol but at least it
should not prevent the player
from training regularly.

In his absence, Blackmore,
another international comes in
to the club team and Ring plays
his second game since his long
lay-off because of a knee injury.
Cardiff field seven capped play-

has played only four games since ers against eight in the proposed
recovering from knee ligament Barbarians team which includes

Coventry ▼ Neath
Rowland plays In Coventry’s
back row m the absence of the
injured Thomas, who broke his
nose playing against Nuneaton.
Pugh, the Welsh prop, leads
Neath who include Mark Jones and
Pickering in their back row.

Headktgley v Lvrpl St H
Hnadnotoy move Appieson to
Ml back and Kennefl comes In at
wing. Fraser and Hargreaves
returning to the pack. Liverpool
hope to nave Potter and
Sainsbury at lock with Donald in the
back row.

Moseley v Nottingham

Moseley play Fentey, their
reserve scrum half, at stand-off
because of Johnson’s
unavailaMfly through Brass and
Camel gets his chance at No 8.
Hmdmarcti returns to Nottingham's
second row with Woman at
scrum half.

Orrell v Blackheafh
Langford reverts to fuD back for
Orrell after a rare appearance at
hanker, with Ainscough at
stand-off and Hitcher? at hooker.
FenDy leads Blackheath from
hooker with Jones back at centre
and Pound continuing at full
back.

Saracens v Vale of Lnae
Saracens give a debut at stand¬
off to Churchman and field Given, a
student at Cambridge, on the
wing against the Lancashire dub
who are missing the
experienced Hodgson.

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among five Barbarians who will
miss Wasps' match against
Birkenhead Park at Sudbury on
Easter Monday.

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two Lions. Mullin and
Chalmers.

Chalmers is one of nine new
Barbarians in this weekend’s
tour party, of whom six play
today, including two of the bade
row, Jones and Ryan. The latter
will add height to a lineout
already well equipped with
Gray. Kim reins — a try scorer
for England B against Italy last
weekend — and Wainwrigfat.

Neath, meanwhile, head out
of Wales in pursuit of the six
tries they need to beat the world
record of 269 tries scored in a
season, set by Bridgend in 1984.
They play at Coventry with a
side rnduding Gary Williams,
formerly of Orrell, at scrum half
and, on the wing, Jason Ball

Rainey out of
quarter-final

The league champions.
Ballymena, who travel to
Hamilton Park for a quarter¬
final game in the AIB Ulster
Senior Challenge Cop against
Aids, win be without the Ulster
full back, Philip Rainey (George
Ace writes).

Life is rather bectic is the
Rainey household at the mo¬
ment, with the arrival of twins,
so Colin Dick substitutes.

Ian Hughes, who has torn
ligaments in a shoulder, gives
way in the back row to Dean
McCartney.

IN BRIEF

Pakistan take
Sharjah Cup

Shaijah (APJ - Pakistan won
the Sbaijah Cup, beating Sri
Lanka by seven wickets in the
second and final match of the
tournament yesterday. Sri
Lanka scored 244 for eight in
the 50-over match. Pakistan
knocked up 248 for three in
47.5 overs, with the stalwart
Salim Malik scoring the only
century of the series.

He was still batting when
the Pakistanis declared, with
his partner. Imran Khan, the
captain, collecting SO not out.
Pakistan won the first match
on Thursday by 30 runs..

SCORES: PataCWi 2*8-3. 47.5 avers
(Saflcn MaSc 100 net out Shoaki Moftam-
m*d 65. Imran Khan 50 not cut). Sn Lanfc*
244 -b IB Kuuptxi 63, A de Sun 60: tom

Drag proposals

Los Angeles CAP) — Olympic
athletes in the United States and
the Soviet Union could be,
subject to drug testing not only ,
during and immediaidy after
competitions, but also during'
training sessions, according to a 1
proposal approved on Thursday
by US and Soviet officials.

McMullen ban

The Rugby League disciplinary
committee has imposed a four-
match suspension on Alan
McMullen, of Workington
Town, who was sent off against
Bailey las; weekend. Don¬
caster’s Andy Tirason has been
banned for two games following
his dismissal against HunsleL

Monday flight

Delhi (AFP) - All-rounder
Woomkcri Raman, who will
replace the mimed Indian
opener, Knsh Snkkanth. on the
West Indies cncLct lour, will fly
to the Caribbean next Monday.

Maradona oat

Naples (AP) — Diego Maradona,
of Argentina, who has a right
thigh strain, will miss Monday’s
matrh in Udine between the
Brazilian national team and a
Rest of the World selection. The
match features the farewell
match of Zico, Of BraziL

His 240 points in 25 matches possible — 19 points at

for England make him his the Parc dcs Princes in En-
conntry's record points screer. eland's astoabhteg 27-15 vic-
In eight of those games he was Mry . -That nl g fa t I meant to let]
England's only scorer. He has Bodge Rogers, the chairman of
scored more points in a five selectors, what 1 thought of him
nations' championship season — f or dropping me,” Hare recalls.
44 - than any other English- »j neTer did net roimd to it.”
man. As England once more Retirement conies at a time
reflect on defeat in Wales It Is who, Dusty (tfae nickname caroe
interesting to note that no frog bis father on seeing his
Englishman since Bmtofs Sam newborn son’s speckled head) is
Tockerro the 1920s has a better enjoying bis rugby more dan
record Bgamst W ales than Hare, ever. “Leagne rugby Is a marvel-
three wins and a draw from six loos thing.” be said. “I love the

P?” - . . , . . . . atmosphere, the big anwds, the

At club level he b far and mw iM» interest and the pressure,
away the world’s leading scorer The higher the stakes, the better
with 7.118 points and is within

1 like it. 1 just wish it had
happened 10 years ago.”

Family — his

third child Is just five months old
_ and the demands of tending to
Ms 300-acre sheep form near
Newark have finally had to be
faced. The 110-mile round trip
to Leicester t w i ce a week for
training has hllfW1 its inevitable
toll os someone who has to rise
at 4am on Tuesdays for Melton
market and often does not steep
at all on Wednesday nights,
before his sheep go to Banbury
market.

Hare would lore to remain in
the game, and indeed envisages
«rin training and playing the
occasional match, “i couldn't cut
myself off completely jnst like
that” be said. “I jnst enjoy the
whole social spirit of the sport
too ranch.

*Td also Gke to gradually get
involved in coaching, i don’t
thiwlr England involve former
players enough in the {Repara¬
tion of international teams. A
month a#> at Leicester I met the
former inte r n a t i on a ls Cholley,
Bastiat and Bertramie who were
assisting the French B team. It's
the same in Scotland: Roy
Laidtew and John Rutherford
are both an integral part of the
set sp. England need to do the
same.”

Hare left Newark for Not¬
tingham from where be won his
first cap in 1974. The 10-year
span of his international career
is foe longest for an England foil
back. The game has. changed

much in his time.

“As from draughts to chess,”
be says. “Moves are, and have to
be, much more orchestrated
these days as defences are so
disciplined. The secret of
breaching a defence is stiff the
same though—timing. Von must
hit the line at Call speed and at
the right moment. To achieve
that yen mast hare tremendous
understanding with your
centres.”

As the rugby boots are hnng
op at the end of April, the cricket
boots will come out. A Young
England player with Graham
Gooch, among others. Hare left
school early to join Che staff of
Nottinghamshire. He had four
seasons with them as a batsman
and captained the second XX on
many occasions.

Rugby, thongh, came to domi¬
nate his life. Barring accidents
he will break, the dnb record at
his present rate of 14 pomes a
niatrh within the next week.

Barring accidents that is. Last
year it was the same tale. When
seeming certain to set a new
landmark he missed the last two
games after dropping a farm
gate on his foot.

Earlier this week be tried to
vault a fence on his bra. It
snapped. Hare toppled to the
ground and looked up askance.
Not again. The Coda smiled
however. They can be cruel, but
not that and. Hare clambered
gratefully to bis feet and went

. back to contemplating the down-
foil of Harieqatas. / . .

ByAlanLttidttr

Scotland’s party to tour Jspan in
May will contain 15 full inter,
nationals, 10 B pUyersand three
new to this leva of rugby:;

Commenting on the' party
yesterday, Bob ■ Miimti, jfe
^airman of Scotland's selec¬
tors, said: “We kept fo miod
next season’s matches and,.of
course, the World Cup. We win
be looking to evety one of thefts'

players to be ready for theT

World Cufo” -V

The side will be cbachedjgr
Richie Dixon and David lotto-.
Sion, who took chaise Of Zim¬
babwe lass year, and it will be
managed by Bob Munro and
captained by Brewster, the Stew¬
art's Melville prop.

After stepping in for the
injured Gavin Hastings in the
inter-district championship,
Glasgow, the Cambridge
University player, has at last
won recognition. He is selected
at foil back along with Wright
(Kdsol but Glasgow, who is
injured, has to prove his full
fitness at the beginning of max
month.

The other slightly surprising
choice is at wing, where Stanger
has been pre f erred to Stark, of
Ayr, who played for the B side
against France: Also missing is
the London Scot, Ren wick, and
the Jed-Forest and Scotland B
stand-off ball ShLel who gives
,way to the Borougbmuir stand-
{ofl Walker.

1 Another player to have; gained
! ground in the past few weeks is
, Jardine (South Glamoigan In¬
stitute), who is preferred to the
Scotland B scram hall ScotL

Among the forwards the
choice of Wainwright is perhaps .
the only marginally controver-
isial selection. The Cambridge
(University flanker played
(against Italy B but was demoted
to the replacement bench
against Ranee B but wins
selection ahead of Rafferty, of
Heriofs, one of the successes in

Zimbabwe last year.

Although Cronin’s availabil¬
ity had been doubtful the Bath
lock has had a change of heart
and with Gray will form a
powerful second-row partner¬
ship. The other lock in the
touring party is Munro, whose
performance against France B
has won him the vote over
Richardson, of Edinburgh
Academicals,

The squad vrin men on April

2 and April 23 before they get
together for a full weekend on
April 29 and 30 at Dunbbme,
which means that none of the
party whose dubs are involved
in the River Series Cup final will
be able to take part in that

match-

Huge task for Boroughmuir

The backlog of fixtu re s in the
McEwan's championship means
that most Scottish dubs will be
involved in league action today.
Although, in theory, the champ¬
ionship will not be resolved tins
weekend, Kelso remain
favourites to retain the title.

By Alan Larimer

B prop, who has a leg injury.

That match, however, may
not settle the matter. Edinburgh
Academicals have played one
game less and if they could
achieve a massive points win
over Glasgow Higb/Kdvinside,
at Old Anmesland, and follow it

Kelso are two points dear of with an equally big prams
Boroughmuir, their nearest ri- victory over West of Scotland

vals. whom they meet at
Meggatland today. To stop
Kelso from taking the title
Boroughmuir would cot only
have to wm the match but do so
by a margin of 45 points. Both
sides have listed almost full
strength teams, the only notable
absentee being Peter Wright.
Boroughmuir’s young Scotland

then in theory they could still

Portobeflo FP in a match which
should confirm the B ri dgchaugh
side as champions.

Many of Scotland's past inter¬
national players will be on view
at Riverside tomorrow when
Jed-Forest pby an international
XV, including Andy Irvine and
Jim Renwick, to raise money for
the fund to help Eddie Renwick,
the paralysed Jed-Thistle player.

SQUAD: backs: C Ctaaguw (Cam¬

bridge tMvoratty). w Wrigra-meiso).
iMoga: M Duncan (Wrist ot SunlandL A
Stringer. (Hawick). I Tukato (Saflwkk
—. # # _ Cantraat B E dwai d s (Borouglwnuin, S

I K1T1AG 1G TnO Unaan {Borougnmun}. ft Mactnan
I/4VlCd la UIC (Gloucester).stml-aHhalves;M Watar
• • . • {Boroughmutr). D WyNs (Stewart’s Mal-

lncnirannn' ***)■ ®““* Mb**- s jmsm (soum

UlBUUilUUU Glamorgan Institute}. G OHm (Hawick).

Sydney -Wato, who bnv, OSTSAt rSS.feS
never been noted for their Sooowa DMht(Harforsf?3,piiHgM

fSarougncmih). Hooker* J Hay (HnwfcM,
K Mbs (Harlot’ll). Lock Iannis: B
Cronin (Bata, C Gray (Nottingham). S
Munroa (GHK). Rank forward*; a Ba¬

vin the title, if Boroughmuir The Scottish Rugby Writers

beat Kelso.

Elsewhere, Glasgow
Academicals, who also have a
game in hand, will want to beat
Selkirk, at New Anniesland, to
retain a feint hope of avoiding
relegation. In division two, Stir¬
ling County, the leaders, play

dub has produced a book for the
Glasgow occasion entitled Write Behind
so have a You (£2.50) which will be avail-
uu to beat able at dubs and by mail order
icsland, to from Jed-Forest RFC or the
' avoiding secretary of the Scottish Writers
two, Stir- Club, 28 Aberrant Crescent,
tens, play Edinburgh.

SNOOKER

expert i se at the seven-a-ride i?

gamftwiDtemiire at least one

member of their team m the Hum (Ghk). rh* forward
Sydney Sevens, starting today,

SfirtSSS:

parable wife that turned m by y(Sa^iBntoa^aMrH).
Jonathan Davies in the same

competition, three years ago, ® Ulster have announce
Davies almost single- team to meet a Willie Ai
handedly beat New on in the Billy Beat]

that occasion, and a similar i mo rial m a tch at Omagl
display will be needed if-the ' wee * t -
Wefsh are to survive a pool
containing New Zealand, South
Korea and the United States.

The Welsh have a prom isin g.
team, which contains four mem- njt | k - ,
bers of the British Lions party,

Robert Jones, leuan Evans,

Mike Hall and John. Devereux.

ORIENTEERING

R Wainwright

• Ulster have announced their
team to meet a Willie Anderson
XV in the Billy Beattie me-
■morial match at Omagh today
iweek.

mm*

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England take Initiative
in World Cup finale

Festival that is on the map

By Steve Acteson

Snooker players complain
perennially that many of the big
professional tau reamer: is have
been dei-aiued by the World
Professional Billiards and
Snooker Associsrcn’s obsessive
devotion ro znade-for-televisiOD
best-of-nire-frarees marches.

It is, therefore, something of a
paradox that rrrar.y of those
same players find the formal of
tee Fenina Window* World
Cup. with matches limited to
two frames at a time, totally
acceptable.

This year's World Cup. which
ended yesterday with England
attempting to win tec tide for a
record fourth time sgamsi a
Rest of tee World side making
its final debut, has been an
unqualified success in the eyes
of both players and public.

Tony Drago. tee 2 S-year-old
from Maili. set an individual

record of eight consecutive wins
when be won the opening frame
of tee final against Steve Davis,
the England captain, with a
break of 51.

Davis, however, produced a
break of 41 to take the second
frame and Neal Foukts then
defeated Dene O'Kane 24) to
put England 3-1 ahead in the
besi-of-I7 frames match.
RESULTS: Final: England lead
Rest of (be Worfd 3-1. (England
names first): S Davis and A
Drago drew 1-1 (25*7. 68-26);
N Foulds beat D O' Kane, 2-0
(70-41. 71-45). Thursday's late
semi-final resole Fagtand bt
Canada 5-2. (England names
first): Davis bt C Thorbum. 24)
(60-39. 73-20): J White drew
with Stevens, 1-1 (76-46.57-68);
Fpulds drew with R Chaperon.
1-1 (35-61, 71-281: Foulds bi
Tborbuin, 1-0 (58-20).

Visitors to the gardens at
Stosrbead or Longleat House
this weekend had better take a
map with them. One wrong
turning and they could become
part of the hugest ori enteerin g
event to beheld in Britain.

The TSB Jan. KjeUsCrom
International Festival — or JK
for-short — has been held every
Easter since 1967 when the first
event was ran » commemorate
the death ha near crash of Jim
KjeDstrom. of Sweden, who
pioneered orienteering in
Britain.

KjeHstronTs early rathal m
has not been wasted as this
year’s record entry proves. Four
thousand ctammtitDra.
in age f rom the andeMOa to the
.over-TOs and hi ability from

b uim i mi In witw itiri

plans. wOj take to the brambles
and pathways of Stombend and
longira* m«r the near throe
days.

Unusually, for a major inter*

By Andrew Longmore

national event, the individual
c om pe titi on is over two days,
today at Longteat, tomorrow at
Stmii head , wn fa the tea"! relay
at Stock Hm on Monday. Like
the London Marathon, it is an
event ran on several levels.

The lop British competitors,
race last year’s winner, Stephen
Morr, the British champion,
Martin Bagness, and in the
women’s event, Karen Parker
and Yvette Hague, get their first
c han c e to attract atte n tion be¬
fore selection begins for the
world championships, in Ali¬
gn*. For most, divided info 28
classes by age and sex, it is a
chance to see if ihabs and brain

- orienteering needs both in
good working order — have
satvived another winter.

fe proving Us fitness to the

Rectors and not jnst because
his fath er. Peter, Js director of
coadtiag. Palmer, at 22 one of a
new breed of top class British

orfcnteers, has spent the winter
in Sweden, working in a re¬
search laboratory, and perfect¬
ing his techniques in the snow-
corned forests where the sport
was first developed as a military
exercise.

been running over
JOOkm a week in training so Pm
ferf&tt very fit,” be said. “But
“ . first race of the season

and iPs mfiknit to know how
form will work oat. The Swedes
will be very strong.”

Th ree bandied and thirty
competitors are expected from
overseas to tackle courses vary¬
ing from lkm to 2km for 10 -
year-ohls to 14km for the elite.

is really beginning to
Roy Mason, ttdmia-
5*h»frve officer of the British

nieraaon, said. .
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at jnmoE level and this weekend
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Dave Musgrove (left) has been
Sandy Lyle’s partner in golf for
eight years: not just as caddie but
as friend, on-course adviser and
minder. Musgrove kept a diary of
life with Lyle, capturing his triumphs .of 1988. As
Lyle prepares to defend his US Masters tide,
Musgrove tells of the drama at Augusta last April

PHR. SHELDON

After the first three rounds of the
United States Masters at Augusta
last April, Sandy Lyle cf Britain
led by two shots from Ben
Crenshaw (United States) and by
four from Mark Calcavecchia (US)
and Bernhard Longer (West
Germany).

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Sunday, April 10

hat -are my
thoughts this
morning?
You’ve got to
stay ' calm.
There's no point
in getting all excited about the
outcome. Tomorrow morning is
going to come whatever happens. I
tatow we’re going to be very, very
tired when we’re finished today.
And I do worry about the mistakes
1 might make. 1 know what they
are because Pve made most of
them at some time or other.
Getting your figures wrong, leav¬
ing a dub out of the bag, taking
one club too many.

1 left the eight iron out of
Sandy’s bag at Phoenix last year.
Gness how many times he wanted
an eight iron in the round? He shot
a 71. Went out the next day with
the eight iron safely in place and.
he shot seventy-bloody-one.
That's a lot better than having one
dub too many in the bag. I’ve
nearly done that, too.

Well be all right for golf balls.
Well have nine, maybe a dozen.
Sandy rarely uses more than three
in a round. I sometimes have to
get him to change his ball. He
seems to want to see how long he
ran make ft las t. Not Rkn Tanp r.

He’ll use 15 orl6 in a round. He
did that in foeRyderCup in J987. .
In the foursome* on Sfturilay
morning, we had 18 balls and we
used neatly all of from Sandy
played his next two matches with
balls that Langer had rejected..

The balls will be marked ynfo a
sign so I know they’re Sandy’s.
Since foe Open at Mmrfieki in
1987, Sandy has beea playing
Dunlop balls world-wide but be¬
fore that he used both Dunlop and
Titleist If they were Titleists,
there was a pencil dot above and
below the number. With Dunlops,

I put the dots on either side ofthe
number. The thing about playing
Titleists in the States was tite pooL
If you finished in the top Titleist
20 players, you got money for it.
Sandy got $25,000 at the 1987
Tournament Players’ Champion-
ship just for using a Titleist, plus
$5,000 for finishing top -Titleist
player and $20,000 for winning
the tournament. It was double
money in majors.

The Titleist ball foes higher
than the-Dunlop. So in warm
countries with tight fairways and
hard greens, where you have mbit
it precise distances oyer bunkers
and water, the Titleist is superior.
But it's not a very versatile balL It
moves a lot in the wind. The
Dunlop DDH stays on line better.;

There’ll be two towels in the
bag, one in The pocket to keep the
clubs dry m case it rains, and one
hanging outside for deaiung. foe
dubs. 1 always carry a gadget for
tightening up studs, and several
pencils. And I'll have masses of
tees, all wooden so they won’t

damage the fooe of the clnbL 1 try to
select white tees because they
don't mark foe dub's sole plate the
way red and green tees do.
Sometimes the colour of the tee
peg comes off on foe ban. A white
peg never shows.

m put Sandy’s watch in a 1 ,
drawstring tag. He’s contracted to
r Ebel, the Swiss watch manufac¬
turer, so he has one to play in a
slim one like the ones that Boris
Becker, Bernhard Langer and
Greg Norman wear, and a diver’s .
watch* a big one, for dress. IVegot v
my yardage book, foe car keys, foe
locker key. -

Sandy’s got a pitchmark re-.'
pairer foathe has had fin- years.
We have to keep track of that
because it's a good big one and it
has a bottle-opener bn foe end. I
carry tape for him .to put on the
fourth finger of his rigbt : band,
which tends;to sptit/Iri foe past, X
have ■ even 'earned medicine. in
case his stomach got upset I don’t
think we’ll heed that today, I have
some sntaflf coins with ine to use as
markers nickels and dimes.

Sandy never worries about any- .
thing until he's out on foe course.;
My aim is to have everything he -
could ask mefon - - <-"•

In the old days, Tdwony about
the results we were, going to get
and bow lirndi money 1 would
make, but not Opw. It’sTjke Fuzzy
Zoelier says “Why shook! Bandy
worry? HeY won $400,000 - this,
year and he’s on ahigh. Just play” •
Whatever , happens, Sandy .has •
never looked fitter, happier, more

content, and he has neverTJlayied

better. Hefows a -fet of exercises.
He has a rowing machine nod a

static bike at home. He watches
what he cats and drinks. There are
certain thin gs os the course he
won’t drink because he gets too
pumped up — Coca-Cola and
Sprite, for instance.

Sandy’s tee times for foe week
have been 2 o’clock first day, 2J25
second day, last off at 1.45 third
day, and last off at 2^5 today. So
we’ve had a]] morning day to

think about hand do n othing and
think about it and do nothing
again. It’s totally alien to foe times
we have been playing at over here

— seven o’clock, halfpast seven,
eight okdock. Also every round
has been very slow. It’s been
nothing to have time groups on
that second tee.

The first thing I do each day is
to get a starting sheet I draw the
direction of foe wind on foe first
tee on it and from that I can work
out where the wind is going to be
blowing from for the rest of foe
round. As it. happens, foe wind
changed today from what it had
been all week. When we arrived,
foe first hole was downwind and
the second hole was into the wind.
But by the time we got to the
second, foe wind had dropped.
Actually, it's not a wind so much
as an air movement
Sandy pitched up about quarter
past one and said he’d be ready to
play about two o'clock. He went
made to lake his nasty piTK Hate,
hate, hate. He seemed lot calmer
today than he had been yesterday.
He knew it would be over tonight
one way or the other.

On foe practice ground, he
didn*! look very good. He tad a
few low hooks. But by foe time he
left the 'practice grotind; he was /
hitting foe ball wdL
. ‘ Sandy hit a superb drive up the
Inst hole-and that was a great
relief He’d been under pressure
for a long time,.what with being in
foe lead and everyone wanting to
talk, about it all foe time, foe
newspapers, foe TV. To hita huge.
drive over foe hill and on foe
fairway gjves yon a terrific boost
The tension has gone. Off we go?

- The driver is the dub that wins
foe money. It builds up con¬
fidence. If you’re putting foe ball
in play all the time from foe tee,
you’re not cinder such pressure,
but if you’re saving your score on
thegreen, you’re making life very
difficult for yourself When you-
hit good drives, spedaOy at Au¬
gusta, you’re d ominating .the
course.

Now it was bade to a reasonable
speed.

Sandy was interested in watch-,
ing what Langer and Calcavecchia
were doing on foe 12th, the key
hole on foe tack nine: He hadn’t
got his mind 100 per cent on foe
11th. He left foe putt short and
missed foe next one: '.

When you’re playing in the
Masters, you’re also watching has
wdL You’re very aware of what
the other golfers are doing all the
time. In most other tournaments,
yon only see the numbers on foe
board tat in foe Matters you’re
watching it as you’re playing in it.

On foe 12th lee, Crenshaw hit a
seven iron into foe tack tanker.
Sandy tad already tad foe eight
iron in his hand. If he hits a solid
eight iron, he could go straight at
foe pin tat he was worried that he
might turn it a little and send it
into foe bunker at foe as
Crenshaw has just done. Normally
when foe pin is on foe right, you
don’t go for it You play for the
middle of the green. Today there
was no wind at alL It was a perfect
length for an eight iron — 160
yards.

He came offhis tee shot a bit, hit
it thin. It sounded a little bony to
me and 1 didn’t like its left-to-nght
shape, so I was urging it on. “Go
on, get over foe water,” I shouted
at it The ball a few feet
short of the putting surface and
rolled slowly bade into foe water.

In the first eight holes, Lyle had
five pars, two birdies and a bogey.

' So he was seven under par for the
tournament. By then, Crenshaw
was three under. Just ahead of
than. Shadier was five under and
.Calcavecchia three under.

. The ninth, a dogleg left, was a
tough hole because the pm was in
a difficult position. You musthila
good drive. Sandy didn’t He hit
one oat of foe neck. Its only saving
grace was that it went down foe
right-hand side of foe fairway,
opening foe green up a bit So far
this week the tag has been on the
middle tier tat today it’s on the
front tier.. You don’t want a;
downhill putt because it’s easy to
end up off the green.

I tad gone forward on that hole
and so I.got to foe tall first When
Sandy arrived, he asked: “How far
is it?*? -. •-

“173 yards,” I replied.

“It’s a seven iron, then.” He hit
. ft on to foe top tier of the green
and it rolled tack to about two feet
from, the flag. It was a break for us
that Sandy conk! play so quickly. .
Had foe group in front been on foe
green, Sandy would have had time
to' foink about foe shot and it
nrijfot. not have' worked out so
well-.He’s one foat wants to get on
. with if* . .

thmlt that was a turning
point of foe tournament.
Crenshaw’s second foot -
came up short and right and.
bis chip went right up to the-
hde, had a good look and
sort of wobbled bade a quarter of
an -info. He remained on minus:
three;- Sandy moved to minus .
eight..-

Sandy had-a straightforward
four on the tenth, a drive and a six

iron. He hit a good drive down No
11, but it landed and supped by
jts pitch mark on-the right of foe
fairway. He had exactly foe same

distance to foe frag as he'd tad on
foe tenth — 180 yards — but more

downbifl. You don’t want to go
left and risk endingin foe water, so
be bit foe tall out to foe right and,
with a little mod -6n rt, rt drifted
farther right. Jt entUd up on foe
fringe of the gran, i couldn’t dean
it Tbe-mod-wasstffl on foe talk
Thai green was totally different to
what it bad bees foe Saturday,
when ft was very sfodc and hard
ami shiny and bad turned purple:

s we were walking
forward from the tee,
Sandy started cursing
himself for not think¬
ing property. My
only thought was: “I
heme we make five”. I tad no
thoughts of a four because I know
how difficult the next shot is.

I was trying to measure from foe
tee to wherever he was going to
drop but at the same time I'm
trying to calm him down. I'm
doing two jobs at once: I tad to
keep stopping, remember die
number Fd reached and say to
him: “Let’s just play the shot,”
and then start counting again.

It's times like this when you’ve
got to keep calm. This is when I
earn, my money. Sandy’s got to
play again. Where from, and how
far is it? I’ve got to keep a cool
bead, otherwise we’fl make
another mistake. I told him:
“Don’t worry about what’s hap¬
pened. That’s done, ancient his¬
tory. Just make sure you make a
five.”

The rales officials told Sandy
foe line he could drop his ball on.
Many American players simply
tell their caddies: “Give me 100
yards.” But in this case I didn't
know what length. Sandy wanted
and I couldn't ask him because I
was busy counting and calming
him down. He went back 60 yards
from foe frag and then he moved
five yards nearer. I thought be
would be better off going farther
bade, malting it a shot of 100 yards
.to help him stop the ball easier.

The hardest shot in foe world is
the third shot to that green. But
no, be {Hayed it from there. The
ball landed be t w een the front edge
ofthe green and foe pin and rolled
just off foe back. It was a brilliant
shot. A few feet less and it would
have beea down in foe water
again. Two putts for a five. It’s a
terrible green, like baked eday.

We got on to the 13th tee. What
most people don’t know is how for
away tins tee is from the spec¬
tators. It’s miles. At any other
course after you’ve made a double
bogey, you can bear foe buzz is foe
crowd, people saying one to
another “He’s just double bo-
■ geyed” or “He’s just dropped two
shots” or “He’s lost bis lead”. But
when you stand on the 13th it’s
like being on the stage ofan empty
theatre. You can’t .hear anything
down there. You could be playing
is a private two-ball It’s a great
chance to regroup.

It was getting cooler by then,
too. It must have been about five
o'clock. The crowd were fike a
backdrop somebody has painted.
That gave him the best chance in
the world to coBect his thoughts as
we tad to watch Calcavecchia
hammering out ofthe trees on the
right

As we stood waiting on the tee,
Sandy was stiD muttering at
himselt “What have I done? I’ve
chucked it all away,” be kept
saying.

“Look, we've got six holes left,”

I said. “And you’re still {Haying
wdL There’s time. Get on with ft.” -
We considered . which dub
Sandy should use from foe tee. “A
driver up the right of foe fairway
.will go too far. You'll end up in the
trees,” I said. “That’s where
Calcavecchia- has gone: Langer
drew his ball round foe comer.”

Sandy had already got his shot
worked out in his own mind. He
lookJns driver andliit a huge shot

Sandy Lyle and Dave Musgrove line np a putt during the final round of the 1988 Masters at Augusta National

across the comer. It was brave,
even though it was always on for
him with a slight wind assistance.

It left him with a second shot of
170 yards, a seven iron. He pulled
it a little bit because be was
conscious ofthe creek on the right
-and ended up in the bunker. I
thought to myself “That’s all
right. If it’s in a good lie, it’s a
straig ht forw a rd shot Land it ou
foe top tier of the green and let it
run down to the bottom.”

But be didn't have a very good
lie. There was a great lump of sand
behind the ball. “I've got a lot to
do to stop this on foe green.” he
said as he lined up the shot He did
it though, and got a five. Thai's
like half a shot dropped. And by
not biidieing it Sandy had lost the
lead for the first time since the
ninth hole on the second day.

The 14fo is one of Augusta’s
lesser-known holes: It's a slight
dogleg left and the adverse camber
of foe fairway throws foe ball to
the right Sandy always hits a one
iron because he can shape his shot
better with this dub.

If you overdo it and hit foe left-
hand trees, you’re dead. He hit his
one iron np the middle to ran to
the right hand side of foe fairway.
From there, you’re perfectly po¬
sitioned with the pin back left of
foe green. He had 170 yards again
and hit a great seven iron that ran
ten feet past the flag. He hit a real
pure putt but it just stayed on the
lip.

- Sandy hit a good tee shot on tta
15th and was left with 197 yards to
the front ofthe green. We tad a
pretty good idea what dub to take
because in a practice round he’d
hit a five iron which stayed on the
green.

While we were waiting to play, 1
made casual conversation. “What
a great view this is, Sandy.”
Standing in foe middle of foe
fairway — not on one side or the
other — you’ve got an uninter¬
rupted view of foe slope, the
water, foe green, foe water behind,
the spectators all around and the
trees beind them. It’s a fantastic

view.

Then 1 thought h was time to
talk seriously. 1 said: “You’ve lost,
the lead and you’re chasing now. A
weight’.* been taken off your
shoulders. Put foat to your advan¬
tage. Let somebody else do the
work for a change and we'll chase
them.”

We watched Calcavecchia chip¬
ping from foe back of foe green
and we both knew he was strug¬
gling to make five, though he did
get his par. We both noticed that
the bounce had gone from his walk
as be. was conscious of leading foe
tournament.

While we were waiting in foe
middle ofthe ISfo fairway, Sandy
looked at foe 17th green- “Where
that pin is I've got a real good
chance of making a birdie there,”
he said.

“Let's just piay one hole at a
time,” I said. “Concentrate on this
hole. We haven't reached foe 16th
yet, never mind the i 7th. We'll get
there eventually.”

Sandy was talking very aggres¬
sively. “Shall we get an eagle
here?” he asked. “Go on and do
it,” I replied.

He hit a five iron. He didn't
want to hit it too hard nor did be
want to do what Seve did in 1986
and get too cute with it and dump
it into foe water. He tnmed it a
little and with the green sloping
right to left and his ball drawing, it
landed on foe green and went
three or four yards over the back.
His chip shot hit the bole and be
under-read foe putt- Thai’s a shot
gone.

The 16th was playing short. We
had seen as mudh from watching
Chlcavecchia, who made another
good pun for par. I could feel foe
movements of the air in foe
direction of the green. Sandy hit a
good seven iron to IS feet above
the hole. Now he's got a dicey putt
down the slope. When you’re
putting downhill, there's more
borrow than there is when you’re
putting uphill ! read foe putt to
have a onc-fooi break. As foe putt
went in, it was accelerating. It
wasn't exactly a slam-dunk but it
was going quick. That chuffed him
no end. He punched foe air at least
four times.

Now he was all pumped up and
he drew his tee shot on foe 17th. It
hit a spectator. It wasn't too far off
foe fairway. It was just up the left
side which is OK when foe flag is
tack right He fancied his chances
of a birdie there because he knew
he'd be hitting a wedge or a nine
iron into foe green. He'd hit good
drives there all week tat this time
I think he was trying a little too
hard. He tad 122 yards to foe flag
on a 400-yard hole so he’d not hit
his best drive.

“That’s just right for the pitch¬
ing wedge,” he said when I told
him foe yardage to the flag. He hit
his shot slightly heavy and the tall
didn't carry all foe way to foe
green. It screwed back down just
off foe front of the green. Two
putts.

1 thought about giving him a
three iron on the 18th tee but if be
had bit a three iron that would
have given him a longer dub to
play into the green and therefore
less chance of getting the ball close
enough to get a birdie.

H

e suspected he
needed a birdie to
win, although he
wasn’t sure. He
could have hit a
driver and cleared
the bunkers but then he'd have
had a difficult place to approach
foe green from. You're at a tad
angle to the flag if you do that.
You’re coming in across the green
and there's not much landing area.

He used a one iron instead and
it started off perfect but drifted a
fraction left and ran into the
bunker. Having hit it, he started
hopping from one foot to foe other
in annoyance. He knew it was
heading for the bunker. As we
walked up foe hill, be said: “If it's
in foat first bunker. I’ve had it. I
can’t gel on the green. I should
have hit a driver.”

The first thing he did when he
got to bis ball was ask someone
how Calcavecchia stood. I said
there bad been no cheers so we
must assume he’s got a four, and
the TV man on foe. fairway
confirmed this.

I noticed foe ball lay clean in foe
bunko- but I thought it was too
close for comfort to the front lip.
Sandy had 142 yards to the front.
The pin was eight yards so that
made h 150. Obviously the eight
iron for distance but coining out of
sand from an uphill lie and going
uphill meant one extra club. So he
played his seven iron.

As soon as he'd hit the bunker
foot, he came charging out really
quickly, jumping in excitement d
la Seve. This is not the old
phlegmatic Lyle. Then the visor
was thrown down. “Your man's
forowing tantrums,” someone
joked to me. “I wouldn’t like to
work for him. He’s dangerous,”

My prime concern was for the
tall to miss the lip. When I saw

that it tad, I wanted to rake the
bunker as quickly as possible. The
crowd started to cheer after the
ball had landed, so 1 knew it was
rolling back towards the bole.
He'd gone. He wanted to get there
and see where the ball was. 1
chased after him up foe slope as
fast as 1 could. The caddie’s job is
to be organized and to keep up
with his player. It's hard wort
going up that slope. You never
realize bow steep the I8to is until
you're going up to iL

Crenshaw had played his tee
shot left, come up left of the green
on his second shot and pitched
inside Sandy.

“Would it be better for you to
putt out?” Sandy asked Crenshaw.
“Whatever you like. Sandy, ”
Crenshaw replied. “What’s the
line. Cart?” he asked his caddie. “I
like the left lip,” Carl replied, and
Crenshaw holed iL

1 can remember very dearly
what 1 was thinking at foe time. I
had started to get backache on the
last three boles and I didn’t want
to go down that bloody tenth bote
in a bloody {day-off, not for
anyone. I'd bad enough.

We both walked round Sandy’s
putt and he said it looked straight.
What struck me was that the grass
was pretty green round there and if
there was going to be any grain it
would influence the putts left-to*
righL I then moved to foe left of
foe green halfray between him
and the hole. Apparently the line
is righi-to-left normally but it was

held up by the grain so it ended up
a straight pun. As 1 stood there
watching, 1 thought it was going to
miss on foe right but it dropped in.

Sandy went running away wav¬
ing his arms in the air and I picked
foe ball out of the hole. He didn't
need telling he’d won.

Final scores:

2SI: A LylefGB). 71. 67. 72. 71.
282: M Calcavecchia (US). 71.69,
72. 70.

283:CStadler(US). 76.69, 70.68.
284: B Crenshaw (US). 72. 73. 67.
71

285: G Norman (Aus), 77, 73, 71.
64; D Pooiey (US). 71, 72, 77, 70;
F Couples (US). 75.68. 71. 71.

Extracted from Life with Lyle: His
Caddie's Dairy by David
Musgrove with John Hopkins (to
be published by Heinemann
Kingswood on April 3, £12.95).

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THE TIMES SATURDAY MARCH 25 1989

ROWING

Gentle touch to
harness power
on the Tideway

Chance to Michael Seely tracks down Newmarket’s latest arrival Joto Gosden

By Mick Cleary

blue, dark blue: American.
British: short and dark, slim and
fair. The two women who will
make history in the Boat Race
today — it is the first time both
coxes have been female — could
not be more different.

Leigh Weiss, aged 22. who

steers the Cambridge boat is a
sociology graduate from Har¬
vard. She is bubbly, tom-boyish
and full of jaunty American
brashness. In the rival boat sits
Alison Noirish, aged 20. a first
year engineering student from
Kingston. She is coy, demure,
and given to a distinctly English
reticence.

And yet the two women are
united by one overriding desire
— the craving for victoiy. Not
for nothing have they virtually
starved themselves over the last
two months to reduce their
“dead weight" in the boat, not
for nothing have they subjected
themselves to the intense strain
of living amidst eight sweat-
soaked. pumped-up, increas¬
ingly twitchy sportsmen. Both
women, to be sure, are desperate
to win. They simply express that
desire in different ways.

Weiss openly embraces the
pressures. “1 tend to thrive on
the responsibility of being a
coxswain, it's a great challenge
and I love it." she says. “As for
being a woman in a traditionally
male preserve, an American
woman at that, I consider it a
great honour. 1 am enjoying all
the attention."

Norrish is much lower key. “I
am taking a big break after the
Boat Race for the build-up has
been incredibly demanding."
she says. "I'm a fairly irres¬
ponsible person by nature and I
don't really relish all the hype
surrounding the event That
said, I do of course get an
enormous buzz out of the race
itseIC and if you win it is quite
an incredible feeling."

Their rowing backgrounds are
also entirely different Weiss, a
keen hockey and lacrosse player,
had never rowed before she
went to Harvard. The university
was short of a cox, a friend

approached her and, as she says,
“I become the designated short
person”. At Cambridge it was a
similar tale. She met the stroke,
Guy Poo ley. at a dinner, he
mentioned that the Light Blues
were looking for a cox, he
invited her down and that was
that.

In contrast Norrish has coxed
since she was 11 years (rid, loves
the sport steered the women’s
four to the Olympic final in
Seoul and was a natural choice
for the Oxford boat.

The art of coxswain is a rather
esoteric one. After all, is it not
the might and muscle of the
oarsmen which win the race?
“Of comse it is," they both say,
“but the cox is the one that gets
the best out of that might and
muscle.”

Two factors are critical. The
first is steering. “The less you
have to use the rudder the
better," Norrish says. "As well
as guiding a boat a rudder will
also slow it down.” Finding the
best way through the capricious
waters of the Tideway is no easy
matter, however, arid that is
when the second factor comes
into play.

“Confidence,” Weiss says.
“You must have the confidence
to lake the route you think is the
best Also, an iaspired cox can
turn the race around by calling
for an unexpected spurt. If you
manage at any time to get clear
water you’ve won it.”

Weiss and Norrish win be
sitting in eminent positions this
afternoon. Previous coxes have
gone on to celebrated things.
Tony Armstrong-Jones, the
Cambridge cox in 1950, became
Lord Snowdon and a dapper
photographer. Jim Rogers, who
coxed Dan Topolski's boat in
1966. is now one of the richest
men in America.

Colin Moynihan became the
Minister for Sport. Given their
present austere lifestyles the
ambitions of these two women
are understandably more mun¬
dane. “A huge American pizza,”
Weiss says. “Egg and chips,”
Norrish replies.

HUGH ROUTLEDGE

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Mother's Whitbread Gold Cap

ENTRY FORM

CRICKET

CYCLING

Stewart’s Pritchard

masters
the storm

problems

The England team maM g gr i
Micky Stewart, hopes to or¬
ganize a pre-season gathering of
Test candidates as part of the
build-up to this summer's series
against Australia.

“I would like to involve as
many as possible of the 16
players who would bare gone to
India last winter, pins a few
others," Stewart said. “Bat H all
depends on who is available and
what facilities we can find."

Stewart's plans for a full scale
Fnglamt training session have
been hit by a growing trend
among the counties to arrange
pre-season tours.

At least six of the 17 first-
class dabs w ill be spending time
abroad before the start of the
season on April 15, when MCC
play the champion county at
Lord's. Worcestershire, who are
to play in Hong Kong. Australia
«nd Singapore, will arrive home
less than 48 boors before the
match.

Stewart yesterday scotched
suggestions that a 25-strong
squad far the defence of the
Ashes will be named within the
next few days. “That is not the
case,” be said.

The manager, like the new
chairman of selectors, Ted Dex¬
ter, is keen to operate a squad
system but they and fellow
committee members, Ossie
Wheatley and Alan Smith, are
not due to meet again until next
Friday. Their most pressing task
j. to name a captain.

By Peter Bryan

i A spring tide, which severely
flooded parts of the coast read,
delayed the first event of the
Guernsey four-day holiday cy¬
cling festival yesterday.

Riders also took a battering
from tbe strong south-westerly
winds in the 25-mtie time trial
but tbe national chain pi on.
John Pritchard, appeared on-
affected by the stormy
conditions.

He won in 58rain 38sec
indicating that be will still be a
force to be reckoned with when
he defends his British 25-mile
title in June, at the age of 41.

Pritchard, nearing the end of
his service as a physical training
instructor with the RAF. was
almost a minute clear of Ray
Hughes and the international
roadman, fan Brown.

Britain's best all-rounder
champion, Ian Cammisb. who is
recovering from an attack of
salmonella poisoning, aban¬
doned his effort before the half-
distance.

Adnan Hawkins won the
White Hope sprint at the sea¬
son's opening track meeting at
Heme Hill in a manner that
suggested that he must be on the
short list for England's
Commonwealth Games team.

His tactics in the Gnai were to
attack early and he survived a
troublesome cross wind in the
back straight to beat Neil Potter
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Cool Ground
to fly the flag

Cod Ground is to be flown to
Ireland on Monday morning for
the Jameson-sponsored Grand
National at Fairyhouse the same
day.

Richard Mitchell had been
reluctant to send his Kim Man-
Chase winner by sea but had
also feared the £5.000 flight may
have been too expensive.

However. Mitchell and owner
Peter Botlon decided in favour
of tbe ambitious plan. “They felt
they had to go." said the
trainer’s wife. Elsie, yesterday.
“They might never get such an
Opportunity again.**

“The heavier the going the
better." she added. “Cool
Ground is a thorough stayer."

The sheikh’s secret weapon

W idely berakkd
as tbe latest
secret weapon
in Sheikh

Mohammed’s

W idely heralded
as the laiest
secret weapon
in Sheikh
Mohammed's
anno ary, John Gosden
presents a modest and un¬
assuming low profile.

“I have mainly got some
big. rangy and backward two-
year-olds,” said the latest
addition to Britain's already
overcrowded ranks of trainers.

“We're talking about a pro¬
gramme of three, four, five or
even six years. The amount of
winners isn't going to be the
factor at this stage. It is going
to be whether the whole
operation is moving in the
right direction.”

The purchase of Stanley
House Stables, Newmarket,
by Sheikh Mohammed and
the head-hunting of the 37-
year-old Gosden, one of the
leading trainers in California,
to run the operation, is symp¬
tomatic of the determination
and staying power being
shown by the Maktoum fam¬
ily of Dubai as they seek to
consolidate their already pre¬
eminent position in British
racing.

A sense of history pervades
the long, tree-lined drive,
which leads from Bury Road
in Newmarket to Stanley
House and the adjoining sta¬
ble yard. Built by the 16th Earl
of Derby in 1903, these stables
have housed the winners of 21

elastics.

Hundreds of horse-shoes,
decorate an archway. The
collection includes those of
Hyperion, Fairway and
Swynford, all eventually stal¬
lions who have had a decisive
influence on the evolution of
the breed.

Inside Gosden’s makeshift
office, the new world bustle
contrasted sharply with the
old-fashioned scene outride.
“We have hardly got any¬
where to sit, to live or to work
yet,” said the trainer. “We are
shortly moving into a proper
office on the other side of the
yard.”

Sharing the two small
rooms were a couple of sec¬
retaries, a mountain of paper¬
work and the trainer's wife,
Rachel, who is a qualified
banister in this country.

“In Los Angeles she was
managing a real estate and
hankin g firm," Gosden ex¬
plained. “At present she is
helping set things up here until
we get sorted out."

It is not only the racing that
Gosden finds different in
Britain. “Setting up a business
seems very complicated over
here. There is so much red-
tape. In America everyone is
out to help you move forward.
There is still a frontier
atmosphere.”

The announcement, made
in March last year, that
Gosden was to move to
Britain, caused something of a
stir. The competition for
training supremacy in our
overcrowded little island is
already intense.

Gosden acknowledges this.
“There are too many horses
chasing too little money. That
makes it hard to vrin the good
races. And even though i knew
it before I came here. I'm now

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hardest dung was going to
America in the first place.”

The son of the legendary
“Towser” Gosden of Lewes, a
trainer noted for his hard¬
hitting and successful attacks
on the bookmakers, John's
first racing memories were of
his father's five-year-old
Aggressor, beating Petite
Etoile in the 1960 King
George VI and Queen Eliza¬
beth Diamond Stakes. “I was
only nine. But l remember
riding a finish on an armchair
with Jimmy Lindley”

School and university edu¬
cation completed, Gosden
went to Venezuela to work in
land development. “I went
racing a Iol They used to start
training at 2am because of the
beat exhaustion factor."

In 1974 he returned to
England and became assistant
trainer to Sir Noel Murfcss
until the great trainer's retire¬
ment in 1976. Then came a
year with Vincent O'Brian at
BaHydoyle, the fabulous 1977
campaign of such stars as The
Minstrel, Alleged, Altai us. Be
My Guest, Godswalk and Try
My Best. He went to Califor¬
nia the next year and started
training in 1979.

Anthony Stroud, the
Sheikh's racing manager,
considers that Gosden’s trans¬
atlantic experience will be an
invaluable asset for the team's
long-term strategy. “We cer¬
tainly intend running more
horses in the States as there is
so much prize-money to be
won,” he says.

The dramatic drop in stal¬
lion values and in the blood¬

stock industry since the peak
of 1984 have created a new
sense of urgency on this front.
“It is becoming an even bigger
factor to race horses fin- prize-
money.” said Gosden. “It is
getting bade to basics, to what
a horse can earn to pay for
itself”

North American raids from
European bases are yearly
becoming more, common-'
place. “It is certainly possible
to set up a irrniipr} campaign.
Acclimatization isn't as im¬
portant as people think. It is
not changing hemisp here s . It's
the shipping that's all
important”

T he historic New¬
market gallops cer¬
tainly present a
striking contrast to
the shanty-town at¬
mosphere of the Los Angeles
training centres. “It is all on
track. You’ve got2,000 horses
using the same facilities in a
metropolitan area. But you get
used to working under those
conditions. Everyone is play¬
ing off the same handicap.” .

The Gosdens’ lifestyle is
certainly going to be different
“It was very pleasant It was a
marvellous dimate and we
had a swimming pooL We
were 20 minutes from Santa
Anita and 25 from Hollywood
Bark. But it was marvellously
anonymous.

“When you got in your car
and left the track, you were
just another commuter. But in
Newmarket if I go into
Boot's, three or four people

Major Stewart can march to final

Point-to-point
by Brian Betl

Major Stewart, brought down at
ChaddesJey Corbett last Sat¬
urday. has another chance today
in The Time: Championship
qualifier at the North Stafford¬
shire to confirm the good im¬
pression he made at Weston
Park three weeks ago.

If all the main contenders go
to the pest a: Sandon this
afternoon, this race will be one
of the best seen so far in the
scries.

Major Stewart sprinted dear
under Steven Brookshaw to win
the 18-nmrer rci ice race at tbe
West Shropshire by a distance i n
a time only two seconds slower
than tbe fastest of three open
races run on that day. This form
has been further enhanced by
the second horse. Mr Bright
Eyes, being the comfortable
w-uincr of the Cheshire Forest
restricted on his next outing.

.Any horse that finishes IS
lengths in front of Dalimore

THE *38^ TIMES

SWIMMING

Hill proves she is well
on the way to recovery

By Steven Downes

lx has been a king hard struggle
for Jean HiiL Ac Common-
ssealth Games double silver
medal winner from
Cumbernauld, who suffered a
ubiquitous “mystery virus” in
foe middle of her preparations
for bst year's Olympic Games,
yesterdav. though, ai the second
Edinburgh International raecL
she showed she is well on the
way to a foB recovery of her old
medal v.innins form.

A* 23 years o« a^e. some who
saw her 'in teats when she wes
(j«agged exhausted from her
home poo; last November,
when she attempted to race
while sail suffering from the
virus, may have wondered if her
career was over. It is non Hill’s
impressive heat time of I min
!3.58scc in the 100 metres
bmastroke was more than three
seconds quicker than nil her
rivals and, most importantly,
was inside the qualifying time

which the Scottish ASA has set
the swimmers for guaranteed
selection for next year's
Commonwealth Games.

It seems Kkdy that Hill trill
also swim the 2G0 metres med¬
ley in New Zealand, as her form
in the heats in that event was
also impressive. Her 2hr 21 min
82scc was only marginally out¬
side (he qualifying time.

Caroline Foot, of tbe Miltfkld
School Team, is another
Commonwealth Games medal
winner who was in good form
yesterday as tbe fastest qualifier
for the 100 metres butterfly.
More importantly for the British
team which is to compete in the
Spring Trophy in Sweden next
weekend. Anna Baker, aged !S,
from Norwich, was also looking
good- Her 65.65scc heat swim
was a timely one in the hght of
the withdrawal from tbe British
team for Sweden of Madeline
Scarborough.

.4 series of weekly reports on
Britain's nuxcounes
No SO: SOUTHWELL
The smaller racecourses of
Groat Britain can be derilishly
difficult to find. The quest for
StiAxdl is aB tbe harder
bfoast rhe coarse is set in
Southwell it alL bu ta tie
neighbouring Nottinghamshire
village of RoUeston.

A con rotated local history
would appear to bold the key to
this Midlands puzzle. Baring of
a sort took place is Southwell for
ceatarfes. instigated by the
Church. According to tbe sec¬
retary of Southwell racecourse.
L a wrence As tin, the patronage
of the church was prompted by
the wish to otter a diversion for
fanners on rent day.

There is another version
which says that raring was laid
on by tbe parish to provide light
relief to pilgrims over the Pente¬
costal observance. Whatever tbe
history, the sport took on a more
organized aspect in 1867 with
the sating up of Southwell
Racecourse Company,

Tire venue biter moved to
Kaxelfard Ferry and from there,
!■ 1898, to its m— I location.

KpTHE GOOD
RACECOURSE
GUIDE

Most of the timber-framed
b uil d by which greet today's
modest crowds date from the
tnrti of the century. Southwell is
o good example of a racecour se

■* a fliHwaiH.

If this appeals to you, you
should not delay, beams? the
dev dopers are moving ik En¬
trepreneur Ron Maddfe and his
son, BscfcanL having aoU
LicgOdd for £7 million and
having failed to s e c ur e all-
weather raring at Nurtinsham.
have paid £1 anillwa for the she.

The Muddles have ambitions
plans for the track. Besides all-
weather raring, they are propos¬
ing new stands and private
boxes. They revitalized
Liagfirid and hope to do the
same for SoeohnetL.

November 1 is the ^rltMid

John Gosden at the entrance to Newmarket's historic Stanley Home Stables where 21 classic winners hare been trained

looking at entries and am hardest tiling was going to stock industry since the peak follow me to see what I'm

shocked at the low level of America in the first place.” of 1984 have created a new buying.”

prize-money. Ninety per cent The son of the legendary sense of urgency on this front. Earlier, on a stable tour, we

of owners must be losing out.” “Towser” Gosden of Lewes, a “It is becoming an even bigger had been accompanied by
The 70-strong cohorts of trainer noted for his hard- factor to rax hoises for prize- Edward Hide, formerly a

trainers like Cecil, Stoute and hitting and successful attacks money," said Gosden. “It is crack jockey and now

Omani that thunder up War- on the bookmakers, John's getting bade to basics, to what Gosden’s assistant. “Edward’s
ran Hill must be a daily first racing memories were of a horse can earn to pay for . going to be a great help with
reminder to Gosden of the his father's five-year-old itself” placing horses, with his know-

competition he now has to Aggressor, beating Petite North American raids from ledge °f the different trades
face. However, in California Etoile in the 1960 King Eurooean bases are veartv 80(1 *he racing programme.
Gosden more than held his George VI and Queen Eliza- more rnmmniL’ Mb an area 1 quite frankly

own against such giants of tbe beth Diamond Stakes. “I was < ^ r tMinh < nossible re * ard as being weak

American scene as D Wayne only nine. But l remember Jo & m a limited n*£r»i m

Lukas and Charlie “Bald Ea- riding a finish on an armchair Acclimatization isn’t aTixn- Part 1116 ***hle area is

gle” Whittmgbam. with Jimmy Lindley.” nortant as people think. It is dom » nated by Stanley House,

“I've been winning three to School and university edu- c^ariitinxh^isnberes.It's Lon * Derby’s Newmarket
four million dollars every cation completed, Gosden the shfoDinK™that’s all home. “At present we are

year. Tbe prize-money is so went to Venezuela to work in important.” * living in the town with our

much better. Even maiden land development. “I went . young children, Sebastian and

races are worth $30,000. My racing a hot. They used to start h C historic New- Serena, but in due course,

best total was $4.7 million in training at 2am because of the rRl market gallops cer- though heaven knows when,
1986.” beat exhaustion factor." H tainiy present a. we plan to move into Fairway,

T he Sussex-born In 1974 he returned to E striking contrast to where Gavin Pritchard-Gor-
trainer’s expertise England and became assistant the shanty-town at- don used to live.”

has already seen him trainer to Sir Noel Muriess mospbere of the Los Angeles The determined low-key

sought out by lead- until the great trainer’s retire- training centres “It is all on image, adopted by the new

ing British owners. ®ent in 1976. Then came a track. You’ve got2,000 horses arrival on a jealous as wefl as

For Robert Sangster, he won year with Vincent O'Brian at us j n g the same facilities in a highly competitive scene, per-
the 1984 Breeders' Cup Mile BaHydoyle, the fabulous 1977 metropolitan area. But you get sisted on the round of horses,
with Royal Heroine, who was campaign of such stars as The to working under those But it was noteworthy that the

voted Champion Turf Mare. . Minstrel, Alleged, Artaius, Be conditions. Everyone is play- “big, backward two-year-olds”
Alphabatim and Zoffany, My Guest, Godswalk andI*y h*g off the same handicap.” included a colt by Northern
both formerly with Guy My Best. He went to Califor- _. - Dancer out of Glorious Song

Harwood, also adapted well to nia the next year and started m and another by El Gran Senor.

Californian conditions, training in 1979. The trainer’s empathy with

Alphabatim won the Holly- Anthony Stroud, the his horses quickly became

wood Turf Cup twice and Sheikh’s racing manager, . wt obvious. Discussing In Coon-

Zofiany collected over SI considers that Gosden’s trans- JzL wiJSSEr 4 two-year-old colt by
million in stakes. atlamic experience wifl be an HL2 iI3?S2i'hB^ 55 Blakeney out of Regal Lady,

The luring of the ex-patriot invaluable asset for the team's he *ai& “Belongs to Mr

home wasa lengthy process, long-term slraKgy. “We cer- ^ ® u ‘“ marvellously Abdulla. No" very

“It was discussed generally for tainiy intend running more . preposessing to look at, but

some time, all quite infer- horses in the States as there is “When you got in your car quite a little character and

roally. It was a challenge to so much prize-money to be and left the track, you were goes wetL Unfortunately,

come home. This is the coun- won,” he says. just another commuter. But in some of the best-looking ones

try I was born and brought up The dramatic drop in stal- Newmarket, if I go into catch your eye in their boxes

in. To be quite honest, tbe lion values and in the blood- Boot’s, three or four people but disappoint on the Heath.”

tewart can march to final Battle: royal

high maiden sinner. The Dark atoning for unseating his rider
TUF Watch, who started favourite when joint favourite in the “

and never had his supporters in Golden Valley ladies in the Audi '|_ VT Tfr/ff'

WjB any doubt over the outcome. In adjacent at the LJangibby. How- If y jy|PF| , Pf

most restricted races he would * ever. Solid Oak looks to have w
be a short price to follow up. but just the better credentials after „ . .

in today’s company looks to his recent successes under John Lnnsropner Gofuding
-.have a difficult task, and I Lteweflyn and Philip Mathias. __ .

Dnint fo/Timmt anticipate that Major Stewart • Tbe Weston & BanweU meet- - .y w Flat jockeys' champ-

rOlnl IOI \ pOlflT will be the one for tbe assured ins at Nedw has been aban- L 0ns ^ lp a £ a J n appears to be

place for Towcesier. dooed because of a waterlogged QOHH PBtedby those old ad-

Championship In the RMC qualifier at the course. ° a5 ° U Steve Cauihcn and

r VWH. recent Bad bury Rings ™ ^ P at E ddery. Both riders have

^winner. Tom Tailor, could meet I Oflay S meetings fiercely duelled for the coveted

must be respected and Parkside Cold Tycoon, who has been jutted vow ersma. Bn ® m cr °! V11 over the last five seasons.
Lad did that when running on successful is his last three Asr&xa (first race 20 * Omu, a s. Berks, Cauthen has been the victor
strongly only a length behind the outings. I was impressed by the T wwtite wn . an w or amwukm put on three occasions. However,
Audi winner. Singing Seal, at ex-Roddy Armytagc trained °^I av S 0 ^ before Cauthen arrived

Tattoo Park The lime of the chaser that day and the colours c& vCwSb m [ rom the United States. Eddery
" L BJfo Swoi Uafcon( 2 -Cfc North had clinched the title on four

SSJSJSi, 4 ? 56 *sw» consecutive occasions.

antes) Gww«! f ? 6 Mercer,, who now man-

_ ___ (tats; v*s or ages the racing interests of

Maktoum Af-MaJdoum. was the

___ ,Dg rider in 1979, and

ft 30 v Wsvfoty cannoi visuhIzzc Csuthcn or

this one rs also among the to the winner's enclosure for w«nte s._Wy ism. 7 m ne ofCo&iesisr Eddery losing their arin on the

entries. ... Madcmrst Susie, who has not °* championship.

Tfe, ic ----- -- BOnetort -I ttink I&ywill both con-

- _ _— - _ traue to dominate the champ-

——— ww— ^, lonship for many more years to

-ti • . • -■ 531(1 Mercer yesterday.

ttracts ambitious plans jssbss-Z

GnBhbm date for (be aD-weal her be spent on the first rtsRe of (be .Southwell

(rack bet the fall programme of rwo-vforey grandstand which P ffcr * * 9 ®amt reminder of a occasions. Hr S an S n!5«°

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least four years. (like that it Durater}. Tote £*»”*<* Ascot and pmSmalSv * hkeaWe

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Championship

must be respected and Parkside
Lad did that when running on
strongly only a length behind the
Audi winner. Singing Seal, at
Tatton Park. The lime of the
race was 12 secs foster than the
open.

Simon Crank, who rode
Parkside Lad that day. had
previously partnered

Fibivguard Tech to win the
members race by a distance and
this one is also among the
entries.

The issue is further com¬
plicated by the Flint and Den¬

bigh maiden winner. The Dark
Watch, who started favourite
and never had his supporters in
any doubt over the outcome. In
most restricted races he would
be a short price to follow up. but
in today’s company looks to
have a difficult task, and 1
anticipate that Major Stewart
will be the one for tbe assured

place for Towcesier.

In the RMC qualifier at the
VWH. recent Bad bury Rings
winner. Tom Tailor, could meet
Gold Tycoon, who has been
successful in his Iasi three
outings. I was impressed by the
ex-Roddy Armytagc trained
chaser that day and the colours
of Gold Tycoon could be low¬
ered at Siddington.

The main Land Rover event
this afternoon is at the Middle-
ten for the coveted Lord
Grimihorp Cup. This should
provide a relatively easy return
to the winner’s enclosure for
Madcmrst Susie, who has not

atoning for unseating his rider
when joint favourite in the
Golden Valley ladies in the Audi
adjacent at tbe Uanglbby. How¬
ever. Solid Oak looks to have
just the better credentials after
his recent successes under John
Lteweflyn and Philip Mathias.

• The Weston & BanweU meet¬
ing at Nedge has been aban¬
doned because of a waterlogged
course.

Today's meetings

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AtMord (Brat raoa 2J* Oar* a s. Bate.
TW«SBtt>wn. 3m W of AMarum pci):
LMMNltOO. KSworthy. 2m NE Of Tavistock
rvis* Umtfbbf. How*. 2 m w of
CfiepMpwitt.ia MddWon. Wh 4 m« on
nw rtt 6 m SW ol Urton (2.0: North
STr^Iorrtihlr ■. Sandon. 4 m SE of Stone
B® rorj. ftucTOogh farm, 3m E of
4iWtK (145); Ronwiltes, Gornann
7m W Ol HarekxO itJCB; Vole of
ArtMCmr. WmbMr. 4 ,nSo» Aytestx
O-30>: Vele of Lone. VWMtingtoo.2m S

Mdoonni OU5UT. wnu uu5 no* RmwffrirH ft Trn-w^n.ii.?rr - - -
been seen since mid-February,

Terviltehasan opportnnuyof

Rural retreat attracts ambitious plans

finishing dale for (be aD-Mealber
(rack bet the fall programme of
Improvements is likely to take at
least four years.

The basic shape of the coarse
Is to change from triangalar to
oval with the all-weath er track
being both around the new 1'.*-
■lite grass orenk.

Rowaagkn. Maddle senior's
company wbtefe bought the
course last month, b currently
negotiating the aopriskfeo of
another 56 acres of land for the
new layout.

The redes ig n of the track wfll
■Kan repositioning the photo¬
finish equipment and resiling
(he parade (tag behind the
grandstand.

An estimated £2 million will

be spent on the first stage of tbe
mo-storey grandstand which
will bouse as inside betting hall
(like that at Doncaster). Tote
facilities, rest aura nts and bars
designed for a boot 1,909 people.

Last National Hunt season
tbe course was allocated 21
days' racing bnt tbe Madefies air
hiving to treble that figure if
then- all-weather ambitions are
realized and Flat fixtures
granted.

That target Of 63 meetings
seems apihahtk to the extmae
but more may be known next
month when the Jockey Clnb
and Levy Board meet to discuss
Southwell's plans. Repre¬
sentatives of both bodies hare
already visited (be coarse.

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Eddery to celebrate start of new
season with Kempton treble

Champion jockey Pat Eddery
<?? hcpn the defence of his
® fi®frstyfc by fanrfiji g q
u Kempton today, the.
™« day of the new Flat
won. OB Alsabiha (4J),
A*w»ys Vafiaot (4.40) and
Crooks Courage (5.10).

After all the recent tain, the
going on the Sunbury track is
bound to be testing, but that
will not worry Always Valiant,

who is my selection to win the
Bonusprint Easier Stakes, the
day’s most valuable race.

For it was just as soft
underfoot at Newbury last
October when the Neville
Callaghan-trained colt was

beaten only a short head in the

group three Horns H£U Slakes.

Before that Always Valiant
had again been runner-up to
the un be aten Irish colt Classic
Fame in the National Slakes at
the Curragb after winning at
Newbury and Newmarket.
Significantly, in view of

th(W Seri

seen some, cut m toe
ground at Newmarket when
he won the July Stakes, which
also boasts group status.

Like Always Valiant, Sharp

By Mandarin fiVfirWl PfiiHfrg)

J^!i , ^? soshownhisbcst *o be a significant journey

front Jack Sty^Lan^to
expect of a son of stable to begin his racing

RmL;.. U. . . career by contesting the EBF

tfut bang by that ctampron Rcdfern Maiden Stakes,
sprinter be seems less likely to Hams* is napped to get

Sharon w same to oepn ms racing

RnVk- , . . . career by contesting the EBF

_^ut bnog by that champion Rcdfern Maiden Stakes,
Wttrbeseemsfesshkeiyto Haireek is napped to get
than a son of followers of Paul Cole’s stable
m offtoa good start by winning
iSS^S^ biaed ^ K ^ ,m the Queen’s Prize.
ifiS'£i?' ova ‘ a nule at Cole is hopeful that Haireek

rSiXS’ ' can reproduce last spring's

ftn52?!Ju °'tl a !l d Wassl,n S* form when he won at Beverley
hrfrttL m between being placed in
^raHecontfortably, better races at Kempton and
Ui> 311(1 York. He also Showed that Kc
t ■ can go on this ground and that

1 9 7a * trough, they snU he gets this trip,
nave a bit lo-find in order to a displaced back is now.
aSLJTv r f lhc , ca ^ lbce °f attributed to thosr subsequent
Vak i nl ’ J**o « aken bad runs at Warwick and Ayr,
, to to aa*ne in but that problem appears to be
today’stoughcondmons. # remedied, judged on recent
^ Bonusprint homework.

M^ala Stakes is concerned, it While I nominated the

a S._^ ay ^ om course nnd distance winner
ract that Alsabiha ought to be Mflion Burn as the main
the winner on afl knowt form, danger following a spell of
.as she was » hurdling during which he won

spring even though her trainer more afraid of Sweet Enough,
Peter Walwyni concedes that whose trainer Clive Brittain
saeisstm not foUy wound up. won this race 12 months ago.

Cteaaay when Alentado has However, she has precious

made what may well turn out Uttle in hand of Double Dutch

to live up to his name in
today’s tough conditions.
.As m the Bonusprint
Masaka Stakes isconcerned, it

« hard to get away from the
fact that Alsabiha ought to be
the winner on all known form,
more especially as she was

on the form book, judged on
how they ran against one
another at Liogfield last
autumn.

In my judgement, the
bandicapper could well have
dropped Haireek enough in
view of hi& failures for him to
be on the right mark now.

No matter how Sweet
Enough fores, her trainer
should soon get off the mark
by winning the Dart Advenis-
ing Maiden Stakes at
Newcastle with House Of.
Commons, who would appear
to have suflicient in hand over
the fit hurdler Smart Per¬
former to break his duck.

Otherwise, it could well pay
to follow George Duffidd
riding Winking Winner (3.1S)
and Martin-Laveli Echo
(14S) at Gosfonh Park.

On the jumping front, 1 am
acutely aware of the foci that
our old ally Rowlandsons
Trophy has a good chance of

Novices’ Hurdle at Towcester.

Earlier in the programme.
Richard Dunwoody can land a
double on H^h Aloft (230)
and Brother Geoffrey (330).

Three off,
another
in doubt

Three of today's right taetitngs
were abandoned yesterday and
another hinges on an early
morning inspection. Two of the
16 fixtures for Monday, the
busiest racing day tf the year,
are already indoubt.

Haydocfc Part, due to stage
the first race of the new Flat
season, was called off early
yesterday morning as twits of
the coarse are waterlogged- The
Beliway Homes Handicap at
Newcastle «fU now get Flat
proceedings under nay.

The other abandonments to¬
day are the National Hunt
meetings at Plum plus and New¬
ton Abbot, where the cowses are
waterlogged. Both trades are
also dne io race on Monday and
inspections tomorrow morning
bare already been planne d .

Today's meeting at Carlisle,
who hate yet to run a race this
year after three abandonments,
bang* on a 730am inspection.

Cauthen delay

The abandonment of today's
Haydock Park meeting means'

eagerly-awaited re t ur n to race-
riding until Monday at Kempton
Park where he has four booked
rides — Empire Joy (235).
Homo Sapien (33), CeriJiano
(340) and Rnnribte Cat (4.40).

TOWCESTER

Selections

By Mandarin

2.0 High Imp 230 High Aloft 3.0 Bonier Burg
3.30 Brother Geoffrey 4.0 Our Tinker 4.30 Turk¬
ish Tourist.

Brian Bed’s sdeaion: 3.0 Hankir.

Going; soft

2J0 2m TOW OF THE SCWUZZI CHALLENGE
BOWL HANDICAP CHASE (£1,970: 2m 50yd) (4
runners)

7 M13 HKM M> tl (MWWS) S C?««ti*r _

2 PUS BTPUR PUHW«3O4|JOWM0-10-!!snSS
SRS63 SWEET STORM 12 (CCUM)TCM#y7-lM

RDaMnoAr

4 CM TftEMAYNE 1«0 TFWStW 6-1W_CU ra -f il

S-4 Sweat Sum. 2-1 My Purpto Prose, 3-1 High tap.
TiM Trwnayne.

230 TOWCESTER SPRING SELLING HANDICAP
HURDLE (£1.058:2m) (9)

1 4143 HGHALOFT 14BAS)TCasey5-124J- RDawoedy

2 33S3 HV DERYA 8IBAF-S) B McManvi 6-1V12_TWMI

3 -am OT M11C DARK S70CHiea 6-10-12. VStarrm

4 0H4 HDSTOH HeL2S(SIR Berman4-104 GMcCMt

330 24th YEAR OF THE SCHOJZZI 1906
COMMEMORATIVE CHALLENGE CUP (Hffl7CSC3p
chase: £1.952:2m 51110yd) (5)

1 421! BROTHER! GEOfFBET IS (3J) O McttaKH 164140^,

2 FTM CtWREW 53 (WWW) N Hmorwn 9-114 iOtbom

3 5-11 LARCHWOOOaB(DJAS) 3 Chnatan 8-11-fl^ ^ ^

4 2231 MAJOR HATCH 23 (OWT PnrMr7-114. C

5 3464 6REEH0RE PHPE12 (CPA31 P eurgeyna l^l M .

BPMM

1M Snanar GaoHiay. 9-4 Larctnvood. 100-30 Oawtw
B-i Major Matcti. 12-1 Graanon Pride.

4 JO POMFRET NOVICES CHASE (£1,657: 2m 5f
110 yd) (11)

KEMPTON PARK

By Mandarin

230 Alentado.

3j 00 Seremo.

330 HAJRREEK (nap).
4.05 Alsabiha.

4.40 Always Valiant.
S.10 Crook’s Courage.

Selections

By Our Newmarket

Corespondent

230 —

3-00 Stage Player.

3.30 SWEET ENOUGH (napL
4.05 Good Partners.

4.40 Always Valiant.'

5.10 Silks Princess.

By Michael Seely

3.00 Seremo. 330 MELTON BURN (nap).

The Times Private Handicapper's top rating 330 HARRIS

Going: soft

101 (8) ABSOHAL (R HomrtB H Harmon . .. ■ Room _

102 (5) ALENTAQO (Mrs A Shelton) J Barry 9-0_.RCactam _

1D3 (9) ALTERED BEAST(CSinger) PCote fto_ tOrtm! _

104 (3) RUSH EMERALD (CBrawylCBmaiyM_.WWtansn —

105 mj mOALBMgUBtalWC^rlUl —' T __

1M W NORTHERN FELDS (Brian Gabby Lid) B QaUry B-0___jltaU _

107(1(0 PtATFUL POCT (P Baurfca) K Bnusey M ___NAdwna

108 (O PUABMIE AHEAD (II BourtJ 14 HayrmnO il. ac» _

109 (4) KJYAL SUPREME (H Shroff) G Lewis 90_ PuEddwy _

1 10 (9 amOWG DETECTIVE (John MRi Office Equipcnent Ltd) MBrtHafciiM A Item (51 —

11 1 (1) TVIRamtJU1(pfilMrmcJi)RSt»iM»i«^U> SWHMth —

^ .Roym Supreme. 3-1 Alentado. 94 ARered Beast, 5-1 Ahsorwi. 8-1 Playful Poet,
10-1 Singing Detect™*. 14-1U Gatafe. Pleesui* Ahead. 16-1 atheroT^ .

19« SHARP »P EARLY M> B RpUM (M) R Htanah 10 ran

ALENTADO (bom May 3. cost SAOfl
year's taafingBrat season she Alzeo:

usuafly strong in aafty-eeasori tawSies. ALTERED
BEAST (Feb 1 a. By me succesatul sM Danzig and
is reported wofl forward.

LAOALBHE (Fob28.22h00pnm. By Gtonatel outof
a FomwteDle mar*. PLAmS. POET (Apr S.

SteMa noted for atrQdng form eady.

33 CHATSWORTH HANDICAP (3-Y-O. £2,782:1m 2f) |I2 runnars)

201 m Mail- WQQOSPei»ttl1WP?(MPO**0BHantiOP9-7 ... RRooaa 81.

202 (3) 31- STAGE PtAYB1180 P Mtelhews) l Matfhawa 9-4 ■ Wltew naa 87

203 (12) «m- MBdlY MAftlOOlp 148(8) (FSwain)ftQtufctxa Ml-SWMworth 86

204 (10) 2SW3B' BURNWO FEET3S8(M Yoray) R WWRama8-12 * ..RCoctena 88

206 oes- TOWNPATROI-1*4(ThoroughbredRac4igLKJ)MUaharB-12-AMcOtone U

208 (9) 1B31fi8- TANOOA151(F^)(MBrtliate)M Br«ainMl....:-AMunro(6) 88

207 (2) 443433- 40HNSTED188 <R Khan)CBridainB4_-. MRobarta B7

208 (11) 41-3234 BURSANA13(Q)(ALyons) C Booth8-8-----;—PCoofc 80

209 (8) 0058- RED BW tiWS T fcH US (P Caitfyl Q LawtaB-1- PateErktery ti

210 (7) OISOO- DIADQI DANCER 178(0)(R Hotter)J LOOB7-10---WCanon 90

211 (I) 0 8 1 18 8 ron > R DAR B 18B(A8payer)8Dow7^_;——-TM8aw98S

212 (1) 00011- SEHEMO ise pj 7 ^) (Mra N Macwflay) IA* N Macaulay 7-7.-- A Proud 86

Long hsndhsap: Senmo 7-0.

BETTING: B-2 Seremo, 6-1 WtoodsMe k«. 8-1 Sage Player. 7-1 Marry Marigold, Buraana,
10-1 Jointed, 12-1 Dtedsm Dancer, 14-1 Tenode. Red Dm water . 20-1 Town PevoL
. . 1088:PMBWSIlNEfMN Day(144)1 MeMan 17ran

PODM WOODMOE MAL won Me final iwo JOHNSTTO imprtmd towards the end of lest

races last season at Bath (Ira Byd, saaeort beat attorta 31. 3rd of 13 to French

ftm) end Pontefrad (1m,flooatofini)):onthe latter Pretender at Sandown (1m If. good toOmO on ftneL

occ a a l o n beat Momaer tat start BURSANA w* be IR from racing at Cagnes;

MMY MARIGOLD beat Headstrong Ml on her beMAucdon GloryannoRedcereuetionevantClm.
ponuMmate start at noOcesame (7f. good to aoff) good) last season.

IS) BREWSTB1 (lib better o«) 9KI 11th. SEREMO ended lest season with two Being wins at

MBUtTMAmoOLDstuniiM latest ettrt whan 41U Haydocfc (lm2f.BO<0 and urkawor nm 21. good to

4th aM4 to So RabeiGo at Leicester (7f, good). ftm); on to* teller occasion beat m Eaamlnar a
MsbeeteflOrtonthato^ig nedc Can make the most-of. (ha weight

"" concsssians.

.Selection: SEREMO (pep).

CflRM WOOD8WE MEL won Me final Iwo
■M™** races teat season at Ball (lm Byd.
fim4 end Pontefract (1 m, good to firm); on the latter
occ a s i o n beet Momaer 1SL
MBUtY MARIGOLD beat Headstrong HI on her
ponuMmate start at RMkeatone (7f. good to soft)
3th RB) BREWSTER (lib better oW) 9W IHh.
MBOir MARKKNJD stumOted West Btert whan 4XJ
4th oM4 toGg Rabal Go at Leicester (7L good).
BURfONO FEETputup his beet efforton fhatoutkig
whenashort It
(1m 40yd, soft).

TRAINERS

Winners Runners Percent

W Hestfnga-Bass * “ ’ 2H

P c mw 12 65 166

P Walwyn 7 41 17.1

NCataaliBn 3 18 156

BvST 4 Ifl

Course specialists

ERS ; JOCKEYS

192 PatBJdary-
186 R Cochran*

17.1 N Adams

156 W Canon

12.1 M Roberts

116 TQukn

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NEWCASTLE

By Mandarin

Selections

2 .J 5 RokerRoar.

2.45 Antique Man.

3.15 Winking Winner.

3.45 Martin-Lavefl Echo.

4.15 House Of Commons.

4.45 Scotgavone.

By Our Newmarket
-. COrrespoDdent

2.15 -

2.45 r—

3.15 Winking Winner.

3.45 Martin-LaveU Echo.

4.15 House Of Commons.

4.45 Kalzao.

_ MifKarl Scelv’s selectiop: 3.1S Joveworth.

Guide to onr in-line racecard

1 11S148 G0O6TR«13(BFJ'J)«CMreOR0tlfa«SdBHa81M- BWm<r) «

allooad^ro. R— refused.' (f - firm, good to Ann. hard. G - good.

plus' any allowance. The Times ■ Private

MMBroMflK F “JaLff e“SSS

V—visor. H —hood. E —EytahMd. C-j-cateae
winner. D-dawca winner. CP-course and

Draw: no advantage

Go&ig:good Draw:no

2.15 BELLWAY HONES HANDICAP (£1,952:.51) (11 nmners) -

1 (7) 532/210- PliLLOVBt 281 (F) p~ Cot) T Barron 4^-10 . .

2 (10) 4TW08- AJJAJT71 (V.G) (A MamO) M Bndain ^O-TO-—---

3 (4) 002658- HMARI VOEp308(WS)(H ’ffe**?2** J "’55S5 l L^t? r -"-

4 <a 000312- 0SMS86H 142 (D^S) (Mrs J P»W) ptoy S mMi SO B ^-

5 (9) 480068- THE QgVIL’&MUSlC 157 {F> P RtatoW) N Bycroft ML,.--

6 Hi) 220000- WAVBILEV STAR 103 (W (S FedBJStel) J W3taWj|M46flt -

7 121 580020- CRIMP8ALL1S7(F,S)(JGriffin)MWEMtBfby^---

8 S mS ROKEH ROAR 167 (V^3JF6) (Mr« S U<£iay) M H ^Stefby fr8-1-

a m OOO- IOIIGOPEAIlJORS2W(B)(ftHWBn^TriompmW-10-

10 (3) 203203- QUICK STICKS 13J (£ StocfaMi) P Chapnwn --- ; -

11 (1) IXBODOJ SWSTEHIE28J^tetchseml Ltd) PMomeilh 7-7-7--

Lang hendteept Quick Sticks 6-13. SwMt Sr8 6-2.

BETTWG: 8-1 Htari Video. 44 AH 5-1 Mat Roar. 6-1 Doiaban. M TM Di«a

10-1 Pitfovsr. 14-lothera..

1918: GEMliESafl 6-7-7 M Fry (11-2) Q OWroyd 10 ran

. O M dM If 94
.MWWiate 85
„ RPEMott . .90
■ Raymood'• 98

_H Birch 88

_ S Morris 85
- ODuMaid 90
. JBfceh(7) 88

_M Fry —

$ Wood (5) M
P testa (S) —

Music, CrimpEHlt.

Course specialists

MHEastarfiy
BHtoitiwy
J Berry
S Norton
Mrs J Ramaden
TFalrhuret ■

TRAINERS.

WimHni .Risnw Percent .

ze .'.112 106 'Krtlon'. '•

4 24 16J M»«3

B B8 136 March ..

- 7 ' 52- T36 KBrad#hew

3 23 T36 J Lowe

5 . 40 126 OamMcKeown

JOCKEYS _

TMnnocs.- R>du Percent
• .5 .. 15' 336

6 23 28.1

25 ■ 1S3 • T56

• 3 22 136

16 142 116

r 4 38 106

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Draw 5f-€f, low riumbera best

2M EBF REDFERH MAIDEN STAKES (2-Y-O colts and gekfings: £1,987: 5f) (11
runners)

330 QUEEN’S PRIZE (Hantftcap: £6^12:2m) (11 runners)

301 <7) Q/BS000- MUSKTAAQ MJ(S) (FLarmon) I WardW ---

302 m 080840- CnCNTUM M#(KGQULazzad)RHannon64-10-■ Route 95

303 (1) 0/21200- HARRESC180(VAflMPSalman)PCola4-8-13-TOWna *98

304 (3) 410229- WESIBUi PAHC8R MM (CWFf.OJB) 0-Spenoar)C Horgan 84M0 R C o chn w* 92

305 (2} 12IB2S- OOWH6 DUTCH 14S (0) 0-RRaO tasa B Sanders 56-10-WNe wnaa S3

300 (4) 534211- SWEET ENOUOH 148 BLFA (R Rcharea) C BntuSi 4-8-8-- WRyan R5

307 (5) 052456- POCK DAWCg 2»J (VjOWa (Britoh Thoroughbred) O Batang 7-86 - J Wata a «

300 (10) flOOOOO- OLYMPIC TORS 7J(0^(R»mng Hon* Luf) R Aketeint 7-84-S WMta atl ll 88

309 m 040003- TAKE ISSUE 8J (06) (H noweO J SutcMfa 4-7-T2- WOatei 93

310 (8) 0000-03 KHCTA KMG T3 (8^.06) (Sir G Bnatton) W Hatanga-Bass 5-7-12 Dale GHmwb (S» 96

311 (11) 002006- M&TON BURN 28J (OtyFAS} (A Rchards) H GTNotfl 8-7-7-B Drawn 97

Long handicap: Mton Bum 7-6.

BCTTMQ: 4-1 Sweat Enough. 9-2 Haraek. 11-2 Double thneh, B-t Maton Bum, Kbaa Kins. 8-1 anon.
IMS: SUN STREET fr«6 M Roberto (11-Z) C Oman 12 ron
PODM ORIENTUHE put up best ettorr when NomadcWw at Hardock (2m 3*. heawri. DOUBLE

rv/ram 3%l4tho(13ine Sued event MTaby. DUTCH tea tad to Nomadc Way m me Cesaraiwch

Sweden (lm 4f) on perytan aw sta rt: Pfwtayr SWEET ENOUGH bee: (muioon i! 81 Urctotd f2ro 2f.

SP°g_ a j*to KnaHar mHaor Hanfflcag.a YotfcQm goodtoaolfl»final ant wehDOtlBU?DUTCH(ito

gyfltofrm. il^lIJR^TAAOn lb«»r^n worse eWj Yt\ 3rd and KHETA KMQ p*J better oH)
»joSi*r 317th and WESTERN DANCER m 9 behind out of hrsi 10. beaten owrl3L

WESTBM DAMCSI sardtoCesarewkch winner Satecdon: SWtET ENOUGH

AS BONUSPRINT MASAKA STAKES (3-Y-O fiilies: £7,180: Ira) (3 tfjgl
runnere)

401 ej 12324- ALSABMA154 (F)(H AI-Mak!oucn) P Wainyn 8-0_PetEddwy «M

402 (J) 110420- OOODPARTNERS T62(BF,f>3HCQaoad)MRyan8-0_BCectaww 97

403 [3) WRAPPMd(ShefchMohammed)PColeB-5_TQutao -

BETTMO: Evans Aisahtna, 8-4 Good Partner*. 6-1 wrapping.

1888: MCHMURRM 3-8-13 Pat Eddery (5-1) G Wlagg 8 ran
PODM ALSABIHA made a winning race- j &m) end Voile (Bf. good u soft) and ran best race

4 0904 MDSTDNMBJ.2S(8)RBerma4-10-9 GMcCburt

5 -200 SILVER ANCONA 21NThomson 5-1M_ CUawMm
8 -PPP ROSE' S JUMPER 21G Boe6-lfr6— PlteOatawBff)

7 0QP6 W^ECOURSE 21C Tne8mo 5-10-6-L Harvey

8 PP04 HERMAN MUNST8117 C Bodgalt 4-106 MrCUdgaa

9 3S0F BUCXSvnu. 11 Mra Bemva^wog6-i86_ J RobaM
S-4 Hitfi Aloft. 3-1 SO In The Darts. 8-2 My Cerya. 6-T Bitf-

cton UZL 7-1 AftoorU. 12-1 VKSMOine, 16-1 oBwre.

XO EMPRESS ELIZABETH OF AUSTRIA
HUNTERS CHASE (Amateurs: £2,372: 3m 190yd)
HD

1 PO-2 BORDER BURG U (COJSFfAS) J OMshsoka

12-126 A H3 (Q

2 PfM- CASff£ ANDREA 378 (COAS) 0 Jeffries 11-12-6. —

3 1-1U MAHKHt*03^.0)Ntanawes-IM_NMMctteB(7)

4 P4-1 COOLCOTIS15 (06)HSyn*onds 13-12-4

MM CUm (7)

5 0-13 PATHiaj HADY 22 &JF& J Graaraa ipTg-r_4

E 2-4P VEL£fiO 1^Cn/66JD Curts 11-12-4 _ C Gordon 0

7 -P3S OOC*BfBEF23(RP)Mftpafi-t«l-LJafltaffo

8 JVF MANNA HBSF 15(7,06) JEdwanR 11-124)

9 14>D prison P5«NCE 18 (0« Mrs C Brtttt* 84 ^

MtaJCrawtadp)

13 PPfP DROPS OWtANDY 19 0LFAS) C THy 14-11-10

11 OU CARMEIUS THE GISAT24GB«tdng 6-11-5 T ^ ^

■CMMO)

2-1 Border Biag, 6-2 Hankir. 5-1 CoctaWs, 11-2 other*.

CARLISLE

1 IPW BEUASKSTEOWlnman 8-11-7_- —

2 PPM BLACK MONKEY 15(8)0 N«Mboo7-11^ .

RDteKWf

3 RM2 CAFEUCONE48<S)MraHpemxr7-11-7— AWM*

4 MR COPPER FASTENER 38 T Farser 61H«* H

5 0U« BOSH DESTINY B G Bating 6-11-7_--

6 »l* MlGHtYFlNEteSChiisranB-11-7„IBraUp4M(9

7 0002 OUH TBtKER IB ff) M Poe 7-11-7_P Sc ed a aw ro

8 00/P HO-te*

9 mo SCALLYFAAEBJ Old 8-11-7_8MMM8

Ifl JSM flPEAKEflS COftfgR 15 W WJjftKln^

11 OfPf U3CHCHASTITY24Q8W#ng8-11-2WMeftatevdPl
5-e Our Tinker. 7-2 Capefl Cone. 9-2 MigWy Hne. 8-1 Mrt
Destiny, scacyfare, 16-1 otnera.

430 LITTLE EVERDON NOVICES HUIffll£ (4-Y-Oi
£1,088:2m) (13)

1 31 MARUN DANCER 23 OASIJ Daw IT-1 -SKMbWQ

2 1 ROWLANDSONS TROPHY 16 p£) D Money Smut

11-lOB n Ray

3 P DEPUTY SMQER 24 A Jams* 10-10_JBqp>

4 340 OOLDTWT14IH) TMsGovem 1(M0_PCertpaa

5 NARDHOUOWBSman 10-10_Rnatamdr

6 92 UtMOTIVE B(OT B Mcf4*floo IQ-10__ ■ TWtel

7 LEARHBtO FAST N Henderson 10-ifl_HSedbf

8 KK»TTYPmHCE(B)MP>pe 10-10_PScudaraete

9 00 NUDQE DOUBLE UP J Eftworm 10-10 D TMR

10 00 8CA SHAOOW E IHKWtW 10-10_JWtete

11 0 THE GREEN STUFF J Cranio 19-10 OCt teH e a Ja w e e

12 P TUnOSHTOURISTBCurtay 10-10_DlfcstM

13 3484 AHHAAR G Yaratty 10-5-WUfletatO

5-4 nowtendeons Trobhy. 3-1 Mignty Prine*. 11-3 Marta

Dancer, 6-1 tanpM, 12-1 Gold Tan. 14-1 others.

Course specialists

TRAWERS: O Jeffnes. 3 winrera tram 10 rumm. 306%: S
Owtstan. 14 from S3.264v MC pipe, 7 from28.256*c N J
Henderson. 17 Horn 69.24.6%. T Casey, 12 from 80,156%; Q B
Balding. 10 from 87.14.9^,.

JOCKEYS: Mr A HR. 3 winners from 7 rkfa*. 43.9%; K Mooney.
17 from 66.256V P Scudamore. 12 town 60.206V J WWte. 8
from 47.19.1%; L Harvey. 7 from 51,137*«; R Dunwoody. 14
from IT?. 126%.

il* Ii l li i 1 j ■ Ft Pl 1 ?

Pi t ^

ill

Pet Eddery *M
BCecteMW S7
_T Qatar. -

FORM alsabiha made a winning race- ___

rwnm debut when beating Wald subsequemiy when a fast-fHshng shorttaad 2nd

Rainbow II at Newbury (6f, firm; and ran const*- of 22 to Gazenaiong in a valuable Newmarket

nmtfy ttoreansr. On final start finished about SI 4tfi nurseryfff. good).

of if toLucfcy Song n a Listed race «N«wtwiy(7f WRAPPINO, by Kris, comes from a stable that baa a

60yd. soft). ShouU be suited by this tr(p. good stmeeram with first time out runners.

GOOD PARTNERS won mftior events at Redear {51. Selection: ALSABIHA

4.40 BONUSPRINT EASTER STAKES (Listed race: 3-Y-O colls and fliEB
geldings: £8,460:1m) (8 nmners) ***

501 (3) 01122- ALWAYS VALIANT 158 (06)(D Page}N CaBeghan-Pat Eddery «S9

502 CQ 231150- SHARP JUSTICE 188 (CAS) (Maftuss Bros LU)M Ryan 9-0-R Cochran* SB

503 (4) 081030- DAWN SUCCESS ITS (F.O) Qtea 0 Pateras)C Btttaln 8-10_— M Roberta 85

504 (5) 000102- GREENWICHPAPUON 145(tq(JBH)WCarter8-10_AMacfcay 88

506 (HJ *7- rrn»a*Mnw 1f ffp ?t cta»«jn>iw M «».rn j*-m gt

508 (1) 100- VKANDRADO217(0)(H Whelley)PKeBewey8-10_OBarttoaB 81

507 (7) 1- WASSUNQ 158(G) (WNMen) John RtzgaraldB-10-RHMa 79

508 (8} uranr rv nm: ft: p rv^. AM ______ Ttw. —

BETTM0S7-4 Always VMam. 7-g Lunar Mover, 9^ Sharp JueOca. 8-1 Dawn Success. 10-1 Otters.
1988s ZELPHI3-8-10 Pet Eddery (11-10 MV)J Tree 8 ran
CADM ALWAraVA£MNrtodck>sefiomeffl on ns final 2 starts. Had some hard races test term

rwrun wk, a Group 3 mmnt m NawmarXBL end may be best watched on reappearance,
beating Frequent Flyer a necfciet, good to so«. Ran UINAR MOVER esmtorubiy won a Goodwood
2 good races thereafter most notaayvriian 212nd of maiden (71, good to Hmribeatag Quiet American 3

12 to Classic Ramelna Group 1 roce at the Curra^i and subsaquenB y fin i s h ed about 2%l 3rd o< 7 to the

K good). SHARP JUSTICE won a Land race here uaelulShaadi at Ascot (7f, good » ftnuj.

good to seta beating Rasheak a but ran poorly flan mon- AS WAVS VAUAHT

ly first season sir* The Notes Player
which ganeraBy has its Juvenfles waM

PM Eddery *99
R Cochran* SB
. M Roberta 85
„AMaefcay 88

-J Raid 9t

OBarttama 81

-RHMa 79

— T Qunn —

PftDM ALWAraVAURNTtodctosehomoffl on as final 2 starts. Had some hartf races testterm

rwrim win a Group 3 event at Newmarket. end may be best watched on reappearance,
beating Frequent Flyer a nocfciet, good to sofa. Ran LUNAR MOVER comfortably won a Goodwood

2gooo races thereafter most notably whan 212ndof maiden (71, good to «nn) beafing Quiet American a

12 to ClessIcFtoffle tea Group Iran attiwCunagh and subsaquenBy fMshed about 2%l 3rd of 7 to the

a good). SHARP JUSTICE won a Land ran here uaeMShatniatAscotffl.goodtoflmi).

good to BafflbaatngRaaheaka. but ran poorfy SetecdoK ALWAYS VAUANT

5.10 QUEEN ELIZABETH HANDICAP (3-Y-O: £2,929:6f) (17 runners)

601 (2) 12S223- SILKS PRINCESS 159 (G) (Mrs J McFaddsn) M Ryan 9-7-R Cochran* 93

602 (1) 8164- YEOMAN FORCE287(19(Mrs SLae-Rotenson)K Ivory 9-8-PCoofc 89

603 (3) 611886- CROMPB COURAGE 2SB OLFJQ (Cronk Oarages Ltd) G Lewis 8-11 -Pet Eddery • M

604 -|4) 280813- BON^WH0154 (0gF6i)(C Spsrrewf w wfc) RHannon 8-10- . 8 Rous* 85

805 (18) 150- RESUCADA203(G)(PSa«*)GLewis88_- fteteEddaty 98

806 (6) 848330- BEAUCAPEAU154(«)(PStroud)KBrassay36 — -WNewne* 92

607 (TO) 01240- ALBERTS WAY OUT 203 (B) (A Etheridge) S Dow 8-S . . WRyen 95

606 05) 33H023- EARLY BREEZE 149 (N GB) M MoCouri 8-4-HWanttam 94

809 (9) 354- HOVTS YHI FATHER 183 (Unity Fteiu Hofiday Ltt) P CuKtoB M-H Ad ame 83

610 (7) 471200- CROBBY19P P.06) (JEttartonlJ Reyna B-Q. ... - J Qatar 98

611 (6) 186403 MART1NOSICY H9 (F) (D ClartE} W WHjhtmon 7-13-MRotwrta 98

812 (11) 440- GOLDEN SABRE 141 (Mre O MagraBi) D Arbuthnot 7-12 ———— W Canon 87

813 (9) 004000- MONBU.1M(ALyons)CBooth7-10-TVftMama 96

814 (12) 040005- TALONS TALE 148 (B) [Talon Construction Ltd) R Harmon 7-6-HRnrad 88

815 04 852460- MADONMAH 152(C BBSS) MBritain7-7. .. ■ .»ta«ro(S) 96

516 (17) 020301- MOOR FROUOONB170 QKFJB) (J Me as eM l) T Jones 7-7-NCartote 90

817(14) 35W8- HACKPORTH141 (L HoBktey) J Bathaf 7-7-SDraaoo 91

Long hemfleap: Moor FroOcfdng 6-13. Hecfcfonh 6-9.

BETTWG: 9-2 Crotefa Courage. 5-1 Iron King. M Golden Sabre. 8-1 Crosby. 10-1 otters.

1988: TYRIAN BELLE 366 W Canon (11-4 fav) P Cole 18 ran
rnmi sues princess ran consist*** i staga*wt*m5Vii 3rt (Bf.

cnDM SR-KS PRINCESS ran oonstotendy
TWnlVI tut term; latest 3VH 3rd o( 7 to
Lanch&star at Lekastsr (61. good to 1km). CHOMPS
COURAGE finished soundly beaten on ha firad 3
stans. but had esrtter won eesBy at SaHaoury (St.
sort) and Goodwood (6f. flood U> firm) on the imtw
occasion beating ALBERT'S WAY OUT (68) better
otf)2-

«ON KMG, a tough sort, ran on wrt In the dosing

good » soft) with BEAUCADEAU (lift better Off)
taaed off. GOLDEN SABRE made late progress to
fmieh about 71 Bm of 21 to Azeb at Doncaster (61.
good to linn) on final start: Barter ran on wed m the
closing stagoo when 7551 4th of 9 to SHJCS
PRINCESS at UngflefcJ pH. good). Meetsthat rtvte cn
28 b better terms here and loafts waB-nanmeappid.
SetedtaK GOLDEN SABRE

2.45 ARMY BENEVOLENT FUND SELUNQ STAKES (2-Y-O: £1.380:51) (13 runners)

I (8) ANTIQUE MAN (S Barry) J Berry B-11-r~-— —

2(11) CROPYDUCK(RBIackShaw|CT>nliler8-11 —. MBfccfc —

3 (13) HASLMQDEN BOY(LWsuglQ ARoomon8-11—-JHMadate —

4 (3) STILLBATTUNG(J LuncQ J MMnWTfgbt8-11- SMonte —

5.(5) TEWJERLOW (Mre MCteita)N TmWer B-11-KfcnUnfclar —

8(12) AHYTHMOGOES(I4lsaNBanun)TBarron8-6 -- —. PMchaBs —

7 (9) ANYT0JE ANYWHERE (C Buddey) Mrs G Row** S-5-JCatr[S) —

8 (7) CHEE DANCER (O Chapman) D Chapman 8-6 . -3 Wood (5) —

8 (1) ESCAPE TALK (J Ramsdarfl Mra J Ramadan fl-6- MFiy —

10 WD1AH STAR (M Brittain) M Brittain 845- MWgtom —

11001 MYSTICAL LADY (M Moran) W G M Turner 845-T5prafc»(7) —

12 B) i PANOPLY(CBattwr-LonoX)TFaknurat8-6-DoanMcKmwn —

13 (4) CBMUTAIR DREAM (PBtetnteay)K Stone 0-0-S W ab ata r —

8ETTMG: 11-4 Antique Man, 7-2 Crispy Dude. 9-2 Anything Goes, 6-1 Panoply, Indian Star. 8-1 Tan-

dsrfoR, 10-1 Mystical Lady. 14-1 omen.

1988: MY TOPIC 8-6 G DuflWd (7-2) J Barry 5 ran_

3.15 BRUNSWICK HANDICAP (£3,720: 71) (11 runners}

1 (8) 006938- JOVEWORTH ITS (DJFA6)(DCoopa0JGIOVSrB-106_!-SWteam*(7) 96

2 (7) 04SS30-PtNCTADA 141 (DAS) (Mra C Darby) RSfcnp»n7e-10-M GaBagl**r (7) SS

5 (II) 112S/53- RE-RSEABB232 (tyS)(J BMl») M H EasWrtry 4-9-10- MBiiefr SS

4 (10) 324100- WWKWQWWNEH82J(D.F,06)WUwcigNCaSaghari4-9-10-GOoflWd 97

5 (8) 412450- COHCmeNTAL B4J 0LF.Q6) (G Parsons) O Chapman 7-9- 6 . - ... K Daley 96

6 (3) 010300- JUSTPRECKHiS 140(D6)(PVsmar) M Johnston4-9-6-BRaymond 94

7 (ffl 600620- AMENABtE281 (0)(WSpMc)TBarron4-9-4-DMchdte 95

8 (7) 000400- KRISFIELD 7BJ (9) (R Baranson) M Brtttato 4-9-3-MWighei* 97

"9 (5) 504450- STRAW CASTLE 144 (Mra M SuUWI) W Haggas 4-8-5-NHU 98

10 (1) 100000- MISSEfcDLY83J(QJS)(MHR)DChapman5*2-SWood(5) *M

II a 086000- TWtUQHT FALLS 1U (C SnRb) M Camacho 4-7-7 ---— M Fry 82

Long haotecap: TVvBgM PaUe 7-6.

BETTING: 3-1 Winking Miner, 7-G Ro-Retease, 92 Jovewwtt. 5-1 ONnckJenW, 6-1 Pincteda, 7-1 Kris-
Ssld, lO-l Just Precious, Straw Castle, 14-1 oHwx-

198& SD.VBI KA2E 44-12 R Cochraaib (7-4 fay) Mtts S Hal IT ran

345 SOVEREIGN SERVICES MAIDEN FILLIES STAKES (3-Y-O: £1,543: 1m) (10
runners)

1 (8) ANFIELD sally (1 Ogden) RWhitakar 6-11-K Bradshaw —

2 (3) 008- BATUPAHAT 1BS(ASros)WGMTurnerS-11._TSprak«(7) —

3 (6) BU8HRA(N Abdallah) BHanbury 8-11-B Raymond —

4 («) OB- FAR DARA157 (M Paver) NByOOtt 8-11_ONIdioffl —

5 (8) 6- BARnNrLAVEU.ECH0145(ALavefl)MPrascoB8-11 _GDaRWd —

8 (7) MOHEYRAH (B) (N AbdUWt) B HBWury 8-11-P BkXwUtad —

7 (1) .0- PRESIDENTIAL STAR 186 (R Roger*) S Norton 6-11 _J Low* —

8(1(9 RACHEL* DREAM (DSmi«) Denys Srata Ml-P Dalton (7) —

9 (9 0044- THERE YOU ANElM(WoodbM*y Lid) M Britan B*11_ ^Mtaghaa •»

1 9 H 08000- WELSH FLUTE 141 (H Ryan) R ThOTOflon 3-11. — 91

BETTOKfc 5-2 Bushro, 3-i MarteHmli Echo, 92 There You Ate, 6-1 ArtftadSaly, 6-1 Monayrah.
Presidential Star, 12-1 BatuPnhat, 18-1 ofhars-

1963: rn THE RIQGHG 8-11 R Cccftrane (t-3 fsv) L Cuntani 5 ran

4.15 DART ADVERTISING MAIDEN STAKES (£1^6& 1m 2f 40yd) (8 runners)

1 (4) ' BRIGHT H0UR28J (W Chapman) D Chapman 44-7_8 Webstar —

2 (1) 5/32340- HOUSE OF COMMONS 281 (B) (W Grwflay) C Brttaln 4-Q-7_B Raymond 099

3 (8) OWN* PCLUIaCA3IU(T Dyer) J Parkas5-8-7.—. ^^.KFMlea —

4 (3) 400500- RSI plajct m (Carbon Appofc w nenta Lm) Denys Bnwn 4-W_ P Baton (7) —

S| (5) 322* SMART PERFORMER 71J (RayroorW Gomama^ N Tirtclsr 4-9-7^_Kim TteUw 84

6 ffl 060640- SWISS BALL 144 [F Carr) J Parkas 4-9-7- 4C*r(5) —

7 (7| 488- INTR^tD WORLD 209 (RTTonOSNonon 3-8-3_— —

9- &: - ISLANDJET SE Tl gt (PGr—n)MHEastetby3-33-^.—^-_UBirch —

reTTWG: 11-10 HouM Of Commons, 2-1 Smart Parfomwr, 7-1 mand Jatsstter, 10-1 totreptd World.

16-1 Rad Planet, ZO-i offws,

1988: PtfW8C04^-7 R Cochrane (Z-1) C Brittain 6 ran

445fflNGTOMS TEA HANDICAP (3-Y-O: £2,057:1m 2f40yd) (10 runners)

~1.- (4) 056020- DO W r mHB .188(F)(Hyde Sportag Promodo m LUfl B Whfcakar 9-7. KBradahaw 00

2 [9) 3400- NOTTHERNTCLLB1179 (Sheikh Rested A!Kft»fa)S Norton -J Low* 95

3 fft. 500- MORTHtAWUANXWO 1J2(VRob&won )C Thamtan93 -JBMemttte BO

4 (8) 000- KAL2A0145 (M K VMiltalOCk) M ft*4C0tt 90-- QDuffMd 80

5 (10) 000- GOLDEN MADJAMHO 2» (RBowlarJM Brittain M —__„UWIgha« —

6 (3) 18001)4- ISOBAR 178(VJP^q(PMuldoor^3aUdoan6-t2-JHBrown 87

7 (6). 468815- -BAM8QNG180 (F,G) (C Barbar-LomaK) T Faktwret 8-11_K Brawn s wowl (7) »

8 (2) .00004-REVAR0188 (GRiteay) Mre JRamadw 8-11- Daen M c K aown 89

9 (5) 30004- INNOVATOR MS (UreJ Rarnnkm) Met J Ranndta 8-6-MRy 88

10 • (11- 005- 8COTQAV0TT7IK(B torian)MCamacho7-11. LChanmcfc •«

BETTWG: 4-lDoubtfra. 92 Innovator. 5-1 isobar, 6-1 Pansong, 7-1 Scotgavotts. B-1 Nonnnn TaMr,

Kalzao, io-i nevaro , 12-1 onwrs.

UMb^BKHteMOOO 8-10 UBfcnh (5-1) EfcUarby 10 nu .. .

Going: soft (7.30am Inspection)

2.15 CLMNERSDALE CONDITIONAL JOCKEYS
SELLING HANDICAP HURDLE (£1,002: 2m If
IT Oyd) (11 runners)

1 1204 AZUSA 9(F)TJa«ray6-120-CRyan

2 0003 CHAMJESLOSS11WAStaph«wan6-11-7-. JDOton

3 4226 DAUbCUM 11 CThantton 5-11-6_S Tamar

4 Q 05 SnEVEIAN50J JONeB7-11-3_FMartagb

5 OOOF B8JLY70BM 7 (F)SPqra 9-11-2_DCnean

6 0003 FAhtEST ISLE 5 A Brown 5-11-1_JCotal

7 P966 CUPPERS DREAM 14 J Jefferson 6-1141_—

8 0503 STARLIGHT ROCKY 12 (CILG) MBS Z Green 13-11-0

JCGatraan

9 HO VlCTOfff BOY9(CanTCUBtdBft1V10-13

Carol Cttabart

TO 4«P GOeRAZYteMrvDCUhmT-IO-U)_PMarte

11 OOFP CRESTMA CROSSETT140 E Came 7-10-13_—

9-4 Charlies Loss. 7-2 Azusa. 5-1 Baumann, 134 others.

2.45 BNFL SELLAFIELD NOVICES CHASE

(£1^67:2m) (9)

1 3P31 PURA MONEY 11 (DJvS) G Richards 7-11-12 -

Mr P Doyle m

2 3044 SHE8H00NS LAST 9 (qWMcGNs 9-11-6 LOHaralH
3P653 BATTLE OFWItS 14 AQ)TCunomgnam8-11-0

SCnnaingham(7)

4 rm CAVAUER CROSSETT 11 ECaina 8-11-0 _____

SUFP3 MARSR15RRoteraon6-11-0-^TPWfafte(7)

6 5000 MGKT AS WELL 26 G Moon 7-11-0_HHsBanond

7 -40P NITE OP SPRINB 60 Mss ZGkeen 11-n-O

JOnotman(4)

8 64P/ WKSPERMGKMOHT 718 RGokta 1141-0

9 -5P4 GALA LOCH 7 SPayns 5-102- .- a - S rg2

11-10 Pure Money. 02 Batte Of Wts. 11-2 Cavaflar

Crosaan, 8-1 Gala Loch. 12-1 Mandr, 14-1 others.

Course specialists

TRAWERS: CW Thornton, 4 wUmars from 14 runners. 238%; W
McGtee. 4 Irom 20. 200%: C Parker. 8 from 45. 17 JO%i G
Richards. 22 from 125,17.6%; 0 McCain. 7 from 40, 17MHJ
Jefferson. 6 from 36.16.7%; 0 Mofftffl. 5 from 37.135%.
JOCKEYS: LWyar. 5 winner* Irom 11 tides.455%; N Doughty,
IS from 63.2&4%; M Hammond. 7 from 46.152%; M Dwyer, 5
from 38.132%; C Grant 13 troro 103.125%: j K Kbvne. 5from
45,11-1%.

SOUTHWELL

Selections

By Mandarin -- • ■

2.15 Woodcraft 2.45 Master Vulgan 3.15 Good
S>iling3-4S Kathies Lad 4.15 Mondray4.45 Shii-
grovc Place.

Brian Bed's selection: 3.45 Sweet Diana.

Going: heavy (chase); good to soft (hurdles)

2.15 RSKERTON SELLING HANDICAP HURDLE
(£1,016:2m 41) (10 runners)

1 1530 GOLOW SOFT 2t(V^S?JI7ShW 5-12-0

2 2250 BOOT NO £S)J Mack* 6-1W-- Gary Lyons 0

3 1430 KDROCK14 OFJSJP Onto 6-10-13 Tanwa Daria M

4 2406 RASPBERRY CTPgWWsaG ROBS 4-10 - t2

WWerihfaglon

5 003 WOODCRAFT 25 K Morgan 4-10-11-S Turner

6 0040 OOUBIBOREEN13 0 Brennan 6-10-10—B Storey

7 OKS BUTTERLEYLAD37 0WMIS4-10-10-ACarraU

8 3450 IRONGJjORY 4CCyar5-1M-HBoaiay

9 6053 JOLLYVK12MPMn4-102-KSene

10 0204 STANFOM) BOY 12 J rttrkes 4-10-9-- R Qanftty (7)

7-2 Gtedm Boreen, 9-2 Butteriey Led. 112 Bawl, 8-1
Bedrock. 8-1 Woodcraft. 10-1 Jaty Vic, 12-1 GokTN Soft.

2.45 CAUNTON HANDICAP CHASE (£2,532: 3m
noyd) (8)

1 4333 RB) COLUMBIA 71 (COS) W Mam B-11.10_ J Doyle

2 -FP4 COTTAGE LEAS 18 (OS) M Elect* 10-11-5

R CantOy (7)

3 4-0 COHSOSmOH 15 (DJFASIJ Leigh 9-10-13

4 5560 COYENTOARDEM4(B^IV»flWCtey ibh r m

R Sevan (7)

5 1212 MASTER VULGAN 43 (VJ3) Mrs G Ranley 10104

PMvsn

6 52-5 MAJOR ROW 17(» Jimmy PtaOHSkl9-104. M Dwyer

7 385P CLONROCKE STTEAIS lie (w&S) V Thompsan :

10-10-3MrMTnMqMoa

8 SBPO GOOD TRADE 8 (CD^AS)H Harper 14-1IH)

DMaafcw(7) ;

7-4 Master Vritam. 5-2 Rad Columbia, 4-1 Conscription. 6-
1 Major Row, 10-1 Cottage Leas, IB-1 others. i

3.15 HARD-LUCK NOVICES HURDLE (£1,088:2m)
(13)

1 P-OP CAJUN DANCER 56 J Kants 5-11-1-S Turner

2 CASSIS TRAVBIBI224FV Thompson 5-11-1

Mr M Thompson

3 004* EAST PARK 9 (G) N Waggon 8-11-1 NbeT Waggott (7)

4 0 HOLLY KMG 86 J Eduarcs 5-11*1- TMertpe

5 0000 ema THE TREES 38 CTrietfne 5-11-1 _ _

PeterCafcMI(7)

6 6050 MAX CLOWN IMF Jackson 8-1M-—

7 008R RAPER SHAH 12 P Daws 5-11-1-Tanya Daria (4)

8 GOOD &ABJNG ISM 1 Mrs D Heine 5-10-10

SSmMiEcdas

9 SFO LADY T012 H weaver 510-10-R O a l a m y (7)

ID OXSTAU.'S LADY 668F M Barradough 5-10-10

Am Stocked (7)

11 0 JOWTS REEF 120 TKerwy 4-19-7-SuamKeraaym

12 BO MY GREY PHANTOM 19 D WtaUo 4-102-ACarraR

13 4000 ROSE GARDENIA 50 WOay4-lM-Diana CSay

_ 3-1 Holy King 6-1 Max Clown. 6-1 Lady Tiki. 10-1 Rosa
Gardenia, iz-i others.

345 JAMES SEELY MEMORIAL HUNTERS
CHASE (Amateurs: £1,324:3m 110yd) (6)

1 -4P1 881 BEN efCOSIC Pbgson 11-124_OVanofl)

2 firP3 SFORTWa MUireSR 11 pLS) D Bkw 7-12-0-

ABariby (7)

3 /SB COUQNEL HEATHER 15 (CLFAS) M Watson 14-11->

CaplM Watson (71

4 4/32 GLAD8T0MAN14RBensonIM1-7HHaapinaya(7)

5 /03- KATHIESLAD 480 (FAS)JJenMn$ 12-11-7

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THE TIMES SATURDAY MARCH 25 1989

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4

TENNIS

Noah serves some
humour in narrow
defeat of Scanlon

From Richard Enins, Key Biscayne, Florida

It was Yannick Noah’s night
once again at the Lipton
Players International. In a
second round match that
spilled over into the evening
session, Noah defeated Bill
Scinlon 4-6. 7-5, 3-6,6-1.6-3,
with another virtuoso perfor¬
mance that lasted three hours
37 minutes.

It may not have been a
complete coincidence that
Noah’s energy level seemed to
rise in tandem with the size of
the crowd which grew steadily
as ticket-holders began filter¬
ing in for the night session.

The Frenchman loves a
stage and feeds off the positive
response of his audience. It
was a warm night, with a
diminishing breeze rustling
the palm trees under a full
moon and the man who grew
up in the Cameroons was in
his element.

So, too, Scanlon, a lour
veteran from Dallas, who has
been lured back from various
attempts at retirement. Gen¬
erating more power from his
flat-hit shots with his new
wide-body racket. Scanlon

worried Noah for the first
couple of hours with the
precision of his low service
returns and the crispness of
his volleys.

But with the wisecracking
Texan feeding Noah lines,
there was always more than
tennis to enjoy. “Have you
brought all your relatives with
you?", Scanlon called out after
the crowd cheered another
piece of Noah athleticism.
Picking up his cue like a true
pro, Noah stood, hands on
hips, surveying the stands.
“Well, I don't see many
Africans here," be replied.

Brilliantly as Scanlon
played, be still found Noah’s
imposing physical presence
too much of a barrier in the
later stages as the French¬
man's service rhythm im¬
proved and bis ability to cover
acres of court never flagged.

“I felt tired but I don’t think
it slowed me down," Noah
said. Scanlon did not look like
a loser in the Press conference
and voiced eloquently his
reasons for wanting to prolong
his career.

Juniors in need of
a hard-court event

By Rex Bellamy, Tennis Correspondent

Two British junior champ¬
ionship tournaments, in the
comprehensive series sponsored
by Prudential, will be played on
shale during the next fortnight:
the 16-and-under events at
Bournemouth from March 27 to
April 1 and the 18-aud-under
tournament at Wimbledon from
April 2 to 8.

Hie latter championships will
begin a day earlier than nsuaJ,
on a Sunday, because only six
courts are available. Two others
are being re laid with surfaces
similar to those prevalent in
mainland Europe.

The main British junior
championships, for players aged
18 and under, are played on
three surfaces. The shale tour¬
nament (the Lawn Tennis
Association still uses the out¬
dated and confusing label “hard
court*' championships) were in¬
augurated in 1908. The indoor
event was introduced in 1956,
the grass court championships
in 1970.

The obvious deficiency is a
genuine hard court event, as
distinct from that played on
loose-top shale courts. Hard

courts have become Inc reasingly
popular on the professional
circuit, though many have
caused concern in the last year
or two because of the stress they
impose on the legs.

John Feaver, the LTA tour¬
nament manager, said: “A junior
hard court tournament is
needed. It's important, because
players develop on that and go
on to better things. But at this
stage it would be difficult to get
another junior tournament into
the calendar.

“We have a working party
looking closely at the whole
junior scene," Feaver added.
“We’re trying to get a solid
s tru c tu re, with a purpose, for the
1990s.” He did not dismiss the
idea of a points-linked series of
jnior championships: “There's
a lot of sense in that. It would be
almost a mini-grand prix and
would give them a str u cture .”

Juniors would certainly bene¬
fit from coordinated tests of their
competitive versatility and the
ultimate winners of a points-
llnked series would be indisput¬
able champions.

“I have been on the ATP
board while the planning for
next year’s tour has been going
on and I really want to be part
of it," Scanlon said. “It would
be a pity to stop now. But
apart from that, I just have
such inn playing. You can’t
replace the three hours I have
just spent out there. It doesn't
come from any other life-style.

“Even being disappointed
at losing is all part of it. The
highs and the lows. How can I
ever forget those match points
against McEnroe at the US
Open back in the early 80s?
But the memory is just one of
the thrills of competing. To¬
night I was having a blast.
That’s why every tune I retire,
I come back. I just can't stay
away.”

Next year, the Association
of Tennis Professionals tour
will need Bill Scanlon and
others with his enthusiasm for
the game.

The men’s second reed,
Mats Wiiander, of Sweden,
had bis hands fell for a while
with the big serve of Scon
Warner, an unseeded Ameri¬
can qualifier ranked 340th.
Warner missed two chances
for a 4-1 lead in the second set
and was beaten 6-3, 6-4,7-6.

The second-seeded woman,
Chris Evert, fought off a ret
point against her at 5-6 in the
first set before defeating her
unseeded American compa¬
triot, Kathy Rinaldi, 7-6,6-4.

MEN’S SINGLES: Second land (US
unless stated}: M Wander (Sum) bt S
Warner. SO. 64, 7-6: J tflasefc (Safe) bt D
Naigiso(Mon). 6-3.6-1.4-6,6-1: T Muster
(Mon) bt G Mcfttoata (Can), 7-5.7-6,6-2: K
Curran btJ StoKenbarq(Aus). 6-2,6-2,6-
0: M Kratzmann (AusJ fit J Fleurian (ft), 4-
6.7-6,6-4,7-6: A MandnJJAra) bt MDwis,
7-6.6-3.6-2; J Grabtj bt TTiSasno (Fr), 6-
1. 60. 6-7. 64; L LaveBe (Max) bt A Jarred
(Sum). 2-6,6-2,6-3.62; C-U SwebfWG)
bt S (Sarmnahra, 6-3.6-3.6-3; J Courier, bt
J Hhe, 6-7.6-2,7-6.6-4; A Valkov (USSR)
bt R Romberg (Aus). 66, 6-1, 7-6; A
Sznahter (Can) at D Cassidy. 6-2,4-6,6-2,
2-6. 8-4: H De La Pena (Arg) bt M
Woodforde (Aus). 4-8.2-6.6-1.6-1.64 Y
Noah (FT) bt W Scanlon. 4-6,7-6.66,6-1.
&6:RKr1shnan(tnd)btTWaMson.6a.7-
5.64:DC3M(Aus)btBDrFsmtt(Aiis).6-

7.6- 1.6-3,3-6,6-4:MPemfbrs(Swe)btG
Holmes. 64.7-6.6-3.

WOMEN'S SINGLES: Second rand:
Sa&atM (Argj bt C Sure (1=0, 60, 6-0: C
Evert bt K RnafcS, 7-6.6-4; H Sukova (Cz)
bt L Antonoptis. 66. 64; P Shrtver bt S
Stafford, 6-4,6-3; L McNeil bt M Calefe
(Fr), 6-1.6-0: H Goffi bt S Hanlki (Sp),4-6,

64.6- 1; A Grossman bt R Fattsmk, 6-7,
7-5, 6-4: B Fiilco (Arc) bt J Hetfteringun
(Can), 7-6.6-4; E Pfafl (WG) bt M Drake
(Can). 6-4, 5-4; B Pauius (Austria) M L
Gamma (in. 64. 6-1; L Gfetemtester

I bt Ft Reis

(Jap) bt L Barnard (SA).
Schsuer-Larsen (Den) bt C Cohen (Swttz),
64, e-1; B Cornwall (NZ) bt S Goner
(Eng). 64. 64: I Oernongeot (Fr) bt B
Nagetsen, 6-1.64.

CRICKET

Second Test for Manjrekar

Georgetown. Guyana (Reuter)
— West Indies may feel the
absence of Malcolm Marshall as
they seek their first Test victory
here since 1965 in the opening
match of the scries with India
starting today.

The Bourda pitch is not
expected to favour the powerful
West Indian fast-bowling attack
and the loss of Marshall, with a
wrist injury, could reduce their
firepower. Marshall's ability to
swing the ball both wa>s makes
him the most dangerous of the
West Indian bowlers on slow
pitches. The other pace bowlers
rely more on lift and movement
offihe seam.

Ambrose, who has developed
into a world-class performer
over the past year, takes oyer
Marshall's role as premier strike
bowler. He will be supported by

Benjamin and Bishop, with
Walsh on hand to do his usual
containing job.

Benjamin is a much im¬
proved bowler, while Bishop,
aged 21, was genuinely hostile
during the onenlay series, won
5-0 by West Indies. He broke
Srikkanih's forearm in the final

one-day.

Srikkanth’s replacement in
the Indian side is almost certain
to be Sanjay Manjekrar. who hit
a fine 109 against the West
Indies under-23 side in St Kitts.

Manjrekar. whose father.
Vijay. loured West Indies in
1961-62. is likely to bat at No. 5.
with Navjot Siddhu opening
with A run Lai. In his only other
Test appearance, against West
Indies in Delhi two years ago.
Manjrekar was forced to retire
hurt after being hit in the lace by

Benjamin.

India’s best hopes of gaining a
surprise victory would appear to
be centred on their three-
pronged spin attack of Hirwani,
Ayub and Shastri.

West Indies have a score to
settle with Hirwani, the young
leg spinner, who bowled them to
defeat when he took 16 wickets
on his Test debut in 1987.

Rain, which washed out three
days of the drawn Test here in
the 1982-3 series could also play
an important pan. There were
heavy storms as recently as
Wednesday.

WEST MDESe IV A Richards (Captain). C
G tkmdce. □ L Haynes, R B Richard¬
son. KLT Arthurian. A L Logie. P J L
Du*on. W K M Beniamin, C E L Ambrose, I
Behop. C a vvatn.

INDIA: D B vengsarisar (captain). Anm Lai.
N S S-efftu. M AzJuruddnv Kapfi Dev, S
Manyekar, R J Shastri, K S Mora. A Ayub,
CSharma. N Hirwani.

Tapping man’s generosity to fight man’s greed

JAMES MORGAN

to help
rhinos
survive

By David Powell

Imagine the fame if the ADT
London Mara thou ann oun c ed a
cutback in numbers from its
world-record 31,000 to, say,
3,000. Instead of a one in two
chance of taking part, the pros¬
pects for those wishing to eater
would be one in 20.

They would still have a better
nh wff of raining than a rhino
in Zimbabwe has of surviving
the hunters' fire. Colooel Mike
Moody has never been much
bothered about attempting the

THE TIMES

COMPUTERS
Marathon Appeal

marathon, bat the suffering
rhinos hare forced him into it.

Moody was in Zimbabwe for
two years, helping to set np a
staff college for the army there.
He was appalled to discover that
between 1970 and 1980 the
world population erf African
blade rhinos fell from 65,000 to
14,000. “Now there are only
3,000 and soon they will be
extinct,” Moody says.

Phhm bona is in great de man d
for dagger handles fa the Middle
East and medicinal folk rem¬
edies in the Far East. The
animal is naming seared, so
Moody is naming sponsored.
The London Marathon was the
most effective method he coaid
think of to raise foods to help the
fight against poachers and he
has been chosen as one iff 12
runners to represent The
Tunes/Tandem Computers Lon¬
don Marathon Appeal.

“Having never ran more than
four miles in my life, to go np to
26 miles in the three months I
have been back from Zimbabwe
requires dedication that might
be missing if one did not have
belief in one's canse,” Moody
says.

“The last remaining viable
natural papulation of the Mack
rhino, some 1,750, is in Zim¬
babwe and is under concerted

Fund-runner and friend: Col Mike Moody gets in some light
training at London Zoo with Rosie, a baby black rhino
attack by armed poachers. The poachers.

losses would have been greater
bat for the ilwHwnwl efforts of
the under-equipped rangers of
the Zimbabwe national parks.
Over the years rangers have
been killed and only last month
a senior African ranger lost his
life. The money will go towards
properly equipping these rang¬
ers who are risking their lives.”

Moody, aged 48. and based at
the Joint Service Defence Coll¬
ege, Greenwich, is hoping to
complete his marathon In
around fire hoars. If he thinks of
quitting, one thought will drive
him on: in the time it takes him
to cover the distance, at least one
more black rhino will probably
have fallen victim to the

• The Tima and Tandem
Computers hope that, by featur¬
ing the efforts of our fond
runners in the ADT London
Marathon on April 23, we will
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of them write, dearly stating
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We wfU send on your donations.

Tandem Computers are offer¬
ing prizes of £250, £150 and
£100 in sports shop vouchers, or
contributions to their causes, to
the three biggest fond raisers
from our 12.

DRUGS IN SPORT

Jofinson’s doctor

of ban on steroids

Toronto (AP) — The doctor of
the Canadian sprinter. Ben
Johnsonjakl here that almost
every athlete competing at last
-years Olympics in Seoul was
wiring steroids. “If there was
any athlete not on them, they
'were probably from SriLankaor
Timbuktu.” Dr Jaime Astaphan
said. He called on the Inter¬
national Olympic Committee to
lift the ban on the muscle-
building drugs.

“The IOC knows how. wide¬
spread steroids, are in every,
sport, amateur and pro¬
fessional,” Astaphan said in a
telephone interview from his
home on the Caribbean island of
St Kitts. “They should not be
banned. There should be spe¬
cific provisions placed on them
to- prevent their abuse, then
everyone can get back on an
equal footing.”

Johnson was stripped of his
gold medal and worid record in
the 100 metres at the Seoul after
having been tested positive for
die steroid stanozoloL Wit¬

nesses at a Canadian inquiry
into the scandal have accused
Astaphan of supplying the
sprinter and other Canadian
.trank stars with steroids for
years.

Astaphan, who earlier denied
supplying steroids to Johnson, -
stopped short of admitting he
gave him drugs, saying be would
“spill every detail at the inquiry.
When I testify, people will see
and understand the truth about
track and field.”

• LAUSANNE (AP) - The
Ongttian inquiry will do noth¬
ing to end doping unless govern¬
ments, sports leaders and
athletes themselves take action.
Juan Antonio Samaranch, the
president of the. International
Olympic Committee, said.

• WASHINGTON (AP) - Cart
Lewis, the American sprinter,
said as many as 10 Olympic
medals last summer may have
gone to athletes using anabolic
steroids and urged random test¬
ing at all levels of competition.

BASKETBALL

Shaft resigns in
wake of attack

By Nicholas Harling

Hie second physical altercation
this season between a player and
a dub official has resulted in the
loss to the non of its most
charismatic figure. Mike Shaft
has resigned as chairman of the
beaten Coca-Cola Cup semi-
finalists. Olympic City Giants.

Shaft added: “What upsets me
is that I'm being cast as the
villain, although all I've done is
to act as middle man between
the players and the owner. But if
that's how they want it. I'm
quite happy to be out of it.”

Just over two months ago

Manchester dub’s American,
Jeff Wilder.

Shaft, aged 33. the presenter
of BBC television’s Open Air ;
had to be rescued by other
players from his confrontation
with Wilder after Giants had
lost a friendly match at Oldham
on Thursday night. Shaft had
told his players to “stop bicker¬
ing about the officials,” when
Wilder apparently took offence
and also raised the question of
money. Giants players have
often had to wail for their
payments this season although,
according to Shaft, “they had
just been paid three weeks wages
this week.”

Bracknell Tigers, resigned
following a skirmish with his
England international, Trevor
Gordon, whom the dub refused
to dismiss. The incident has
come at the worst possible time
for Giants, whose task in the
Carlsberg championship play¬
offs against the champions.
Glasgow Rangers, is hard
enough without strife within the
ranks.

In first-leg play-offs this week¬
end. Manchester Eagles meet
Leicester City Riders at Stret¬
ford tonight and Sunderland
play Bracknell tomorrow
afternoon.

HOCKEY

i

England can build
from experience

The task of rebuilding the
England side for the 1990 Worid

Cup at Lahore begins at the

BMW tournament this weekend

in Amsterdam, where England

will face India tomorrow and

the Netherlands on Monday.

Richard Leman, who has
taken over as captain, could be
in the new role of centre half in
place of Dodds, who has joined

Ian Taylor, Barber, and Bhaura

on the retired list. The situation

is compounded by the absence

of Sherwani, who is not avail¬

able for the next six months, and
Shaw, who recently withdrew

because of injury.

Still, Leman has with him

seven other members of the

Olympic gold medal-winning
team in Faulkner. Potter,
another candidate for the move
to centre half, Grimlcy,
Batchelor. Garcia. Keriy and
Clift. Hazlilt in deep defence.
Hails at half back. Mayer,
Robert Thompson and Nick
Thompson at forward, are all

anxious to secure permanent

places in the side.

The players have not been

able to come together, apart

from two days of training at

Lilleshall, since the Olympic
Games in October, their time
having been consumed by
participation in the national
league.

The England juniors, who
meet the Netherlands today and
Pakistan on Monday, have a

squad that has had a lot of

match practice against the
universities but has not yet
settled into an effective pattern
of play. It is odd to find

Coleman and Blan among the
travel ling reserves and Capper
omitted altogether.

ENGLAND SaitORS: S Rowlands (Hav¬

ant), & Taylor (StourportJ, D FbaKner
(Havant), S Hazfitt (Hounstovv and Army),
J Hate (Old Lougfttontens), J Potter
(Hounslow). R Lemon (East Qfnstead.

capt), M Grkstey (Hounslow), S Batchelor

(Southgate), C Mayor (Cannock), R Garda
(Havant), K Sbnmj (Walton). S Italy
(Southgate), R oft (Southgate), d

TlMugnun (Houngknr). N Tbonptoo (Old

Lougritontans).

ENGLAND JUNIORS: D Lockes (East

Grtnstmd), A Farahaw (Fdrmby), S Kerry

(Southgate); J a e bjn d e r Cbene (Boum-

PMcocfc (NesJon), P Krtsknan (Old
LoughJantans), Kaftlr Taktwr (Cannock),

P McGuire pexKSngton). Amer

(Barter! Tigers), N PaMta (Gut
Crass (Bromley).

SCHOOLS RUGBY

Future bright for Hymers

There can have been few hap¬
pier contestants at the'Rossiyn
Park schools sevens this week
than Andrew Morris of Hymers
College, Hull, when he ran in
the winning try against Tiffin to
help his side to victory in the
final of the junior competition.

It was Moms’s hundredth try
of the season in which his speed
and skill have helped Hymers
under-13s to a playing record of
15 wins and a single loss — to St
Mary's Hall by 10-12. In addi¬
tion, the Hymers under-15s
were undefeated in normal
school matches, losing only to
Leeds GS in the Yorkshire final
of the Daily Mail competition.
The Hymers first XV broke
even.

By Michael Stevenson

Chfatehnrst and Skkmp GS
had a magnificent season, win¬
ning 18 matches and losing only
to Jndd, by 22-10. They scored
331 points, conceding 78.

The Bishop of Hereford's
Bhncoat School have also en¬
joyed another excellent season.
They lost away to Uandovery
and Hereford Cathedral School
won their other 19 matches and
scored 611 points against 143.

Chichester HS, apart from
beating Haywards Heath VIth
Form College in the final of the
Sussex Cup, have enjoyed their
best season. They lost only two
matches, to King’s Worcester
and Seaford College and won

21, scoring 545 poinis to 164 .
Perhaps their best result was a
five-try victory against RGS
GniWford. Their under-13s were
unbeaten.

DonaL entertaining Terry Fox
Senior School from Canada, did
not extend hospitality to the
field, winning comfortably 23-0
through tries by Varley, Bartlett,
Caldwell and Dalton. Varley
kicked two conversions. The
final of the Barclays Bank
Surrey schools sevens was be¬
tween Millfield, who had beaten
Wellington in one semi-final by
18-0, and Windsor GS. who had
disposed of London Oratory 12-
4 in the other. Victory went to
Windsor by 18-12.

Irish have high hopes for Costello

Victor Costello, the No. 8 for
Blackrock College, who won the
Leinster schools cup. switches to
lock for Ireland schools inter¬
national in Cork today against
England, last season's triple
crown winners.

Costello scored two tries in
every round of the cup including
the final. At 6ft Sin and about
!6$L. he is the Republic of

By George Ace

Ireland's senior shot champion
and is one of the reasons why
many are convinced that this is
one of the best teams to repre¬
sent Ireland at this level for
several years.

Niall Malone, who played a
leading role in Methodist Col¬
lege's recent Ulster schools cup
win with 14 of the 26 points
scored, will make his inter¬

national debut at stand-off.

• England play their only 16-
group schools international
game of the season today,
against Italy, at Ostia, near
Rome. They will be heartened
by their 19-3 win in the warm¬
up game against Italy B on
Wednesday, when Farr, the
Yorkshire three-quarter, scored
three tries.

GUIDE TO THE WEEKEND FIXTURES

3 0 urtoss stated

Barclays League

First division

A Vina v west Ham .....

Cnanton v Coventry.

Derby v Notlnt Forest.

Everton v MillwaH.

Manchester utd v Luton.

Norwich v Newcastle.

Sheffield Wed v OPR.

Southampton v Arsenal .

WimMedon v Middleshrough .

Second division

Brighton v Oxford .

Ctnlsea v Bournemouth ...

Hull V Plymouth .

Leeds v Portsmouth.

Leicester v Bvmmcjnim .

Shrewsbury v Bradford

Stoke v Barnsley.

SundwUrtd v Ipswich . ..

Swindon v WBA...

Walsall v Manchester C .

OVENOEN PAPERS COMBINATION;
Arsenal v Portsmouth. West Ham v Luton.
SMIRNOFF IRISH LEAGUE; Aids v
BOllvinoiM. Came* v Gtonlorjn, Coleraine
w Lame. Crowdon v Gteuvon. Liniwld v
Bangor. Nenry v DiStUteY
VAUXHAU.-OPEL LEAGUE: Premier <k-
vtWon; Buncos Stofioid v Barking.
CarsfWlon v Hendon: OJeonnam v
Bognor Gravs * Dulwich; Harrow v
VVawnjrwn. Marten v LOYton-lVrngaie; St
A loans w Haws Sough v Knuwtoresn.
Tooting and Miuham v Bromtcv. First
dnnatec Basikfcn v Woking: Bnctottll v
Hitcnm: cnesham v Stemes. Hampton w

CrtWr Bow- Kmqs&urv v Basmgsteko;

Lenwes v LoaltiaTfieaa Metropolitan Pohce
„ soujrww*: UsSnoge v wom&ioY, vvsnon
and Horsham v WnsiiIwo: WWtlwtg v
Cnaifonl St Peter. Second dnteon north:
Arelev * Saffron wak»n; Barton «
FUtericav Clapton v BarUumSttKt. Hartow
« Htertforo; Hemel Hempstead w T/mq.
Hornchurch y vauxhas Morots; toxn.
worm GC v Heytttoggi Boyson vTWury;

Ware «r PurfleoiT Wkham v Stevenage:
Worvertor * flawham. Seeond tk vqi on
switaCaffWley « ct »22L v

MNeaov; EosOwuma United v Dorking:

toS?WdEwell • nur **° Uanor -

FiivfYtoy « Bans wad: Ftodwrak v

FeUnanr HarsfiGld v Eghaftt SoutfmP v
SSSraSuStod: Whywtoaie v
Horwam.

HFS LOANS LEAGUE: Brainier dtetekw
BanjwVBangor car. v *«»■

CaS * South Uwn«
Fnjkiey w Marina. CaaMfyod v SC Uy-
rjrtpge. MatKx* v

RmiTMosstoy ' Gamshoro^i. SoudW
vHyde First

Cetee Dvnamaes v Penntti; GurMfl AW-
ton « EasMwood Town: DroyiWen *
Concision: Eastwood Hanfey «
ttetftrrfetd. Harrogate vAwnmjtqn stan*
toy. NewtOMi v RadcWfe: SoHO" Town v
BsMp Auckland; W«»Y Bay * Faratey;
Workington » Lancaster.

ABACUS WELSH LEA GUE M ral*
vision: AFC Cardiff v Cwnranw. APer-
caAsmv v Hawricrdwmt Aawvstwth *

Barry. Brecon * Ton Ponfre. yofe *
Pen Tatoof. MWord v Caerto groPan ttrofco
w 6400510®, FonBUtnltain * Bndgentt

Third division GM Vauxhall Conference

Bristol R v Bristol C.-.— Aylesbury v Stafford-

Bury v Blackpool.-.. Cheltenham v Weymouth_

Cardiff v Aldershot-- Chortey v Boston_

Chester v Wolverhampton —.. Fisher v Sutton Utd-

Chesterfield v Sheffield Utd- Kettenng v Kidderminster_

Mansfield v Bolton.. Maidstone v Enfield__

Notts Co v Port Vale. Nortnwwch v Altrincham_

Prer-ton v Northampton. Telford v Wycombe_

Roadmq v Swansea —.—. Yeovil v Macclesfield..

Scutnend v Huddersfield. Bea3!er Homes

Fourth division Premier division

Burnley v Tranmere. ANeehurch v Bath--

C jmbndge v Peterborough. Bed worth v Corby —.

Carlisle v Crewe.- Crawley v Cambridge City-

Parlinnton v Wrexham. Dorchester v Gosport..

Enetor v Stockport-- Cover v Darfford .-.

Levton Orient v Rochdale__ Fareham v WaterlooviBe..

Lincoln v York.. Merthyr v Worcester.

Rotherham v Hartlepool _ Moor Green v Bromsgrove..

Scarborough v Doncaster _ Redditch v Burton-———..

scunjhorpe v Halifax... VS Rugby v Leicester Utd...

Torquay * Hereford. Wealds tone v Ashford -

BEAZER HOMES LEAGUE: Mkflantf «h- FA VASE: SaakflnallL M lag:
vision: Asntrve HignfisKl v MM Q»; Tamwcflh v mm FenOy. Hungsrkml v
Banbury v Coventry Sporting. Boston v Sudbury.

HaleoCnen, Forest Green v BnegnortT. cae>r irnig i f a rang. n » . u. gm.

S v H *SJSS2J! ' rt *‘ ore Barnstaple * rrome: Bnsfoi Manor

WiMemjli: Nuneaton v Anwrstcne. Fa/rr: v Tijirrmron: Chard v Plymouth
Rusmten vWNt^jrarot^ijSlOLrEficge v Argvie: Ctvppemajn v Ta unton : Liskeard
Gloucester, ounon Couinkl v Dudley. v Wenon-supe’-Mara. Lae PhBEpg Cup:

Quarter-fbtafc Sakaan v Ke ynsOa m

SKOL NGRTHERN LEAGUE: First «S-
v BaiCOCk. CantBroury v Hasungs. benn- BiLmGT^rn Syntnoma * Seananc

Sm n ‘ E»^»^Ches5r-k^e5«v

fum. FaUos.en o “Jhar«et Blue Star v Gretna;

and fwcttnfieet v cttekiterord, hiasw> v u stufi

Burnnam: Tonbndce v Ertti and B#- Nortr,i ^ KCS 3V,n -
vodeio; Trowbndge v SahsCury: Witrey « BASS NORTH WEST COUNTIES
Hounslow. LEAGUE: First dMsioo: Atherton Lfl v

Today

BASKETBALL: Ewwpert 12.33-2.30pm:
European Cop: Qualifyina match.
Soraentport &-730pm: ACC champ¬
ionship

CYCLING: Eumport 230-a30prrc NOaa
to Sm Ram. Eurenoff S-Sprre Grand
Prix from Haregiefco. Gelgiunv
GRANDSTAND: BBC1 12.15-5.05pm:
Raony 1.0. 1.30 and 2 JO faces from
Hey40d< Park.. Rawing: Unwerwy DMt
raee- Ovforp v Cambridge. Rugby
League: Silk Cut Cup: Semt-flnal: Live
c o vyjge ot Warrmgton v Wigan from
Mama Hoad (sae ana Rugby League).
Rnal score: 4.45pm.

ICE SKATING: Screeaeport 4-6sm: World
figura cfiamptaaztfpx: Coverago as Sm
gab irom Paris.

MAZDA'S EYE ON SPORT: Earaapwt 6-
7pm: Sport Irom around the world.
MOTOR SPORT: Eumport 3JO-4.30cnt
Shell international. Scraen e porl 8.45pm-
meJnight: NASCAR Atlapta 503
RACING: C4 3JO-5.t)5om: 3 JO. 4.05 am
4.40 racos (n?tn Kompton Park.
ftOWINfl. Curosport 7-Cpm.- UrtMoriiiy
boat race: Oxford v Comondge.

RUGBY LEAGUE: Eompert lQ=0pm-
nmgnt 30k Cut Cup: SuroJ-rmat
wamngjOT v WVan trom Kama flc-3 isee
atsaOranutBns).

SPORT ON TV

RUGBY UNION: Euraeport 10 30-
llGCam: Five natron*' chawp ka tm tMp.
SAMT AND GREAVSIE: ITV1.05-140pm.
Restete service 4.45pm
SKI JUMPMG: Eumport HJSCam-
1 2 30pm Wortd nonPc chamntanaMpa
from FSun. Eanaport 9-HL30pm: Wortd
Cup (rem PlOTca. Yugostavu.
SPEEDWAY: Soeensport 34pm Wortd
rindtedual in chatnp io iv i lU p a : Sana-
fkiailliiaL

TEN-FIN BOWING: SntMpott 7^0-
a45pm P role j i k m al boyars' winter
(Mlr.

CYCLING: Euraaport 12.30-1 JOpm:
Grand Prix from Kere&efca. Beigigm.
EUROSPORT - WHAT A W&EKb
Eurocpcn 6-7pm Review ot the week's
sport.

FOOTBALL: ITV 3-5.06cm: The Matokc
Live coverage of To nw hum v Liverpool
tram Wh*e Han Lane-
GOLF: Scnemport 3i55pnt Rayerrf
eti m donshlp: That] and finate devs.
Soeensport &55A25prt: taade the
PGA.

ICE HOCKEY: S ci e na aport lOorrwmd-
National Hockey Laague: Boston v

RvtKJetorw.

MAZDA'S EYE ON SXMT: Eanport
fOM-tlJOent sport tram areune tne
wend.

B and Q Scottish League
Premier division

Celtic v Dundee Utd_

Dundee v Motherwell-

Hamilton v Hearts-

Hibernian v Rangers-

St Mirren v Aberdeen -

First division

Airdrie v Morton.....

Ayrv Raith .—--

Clyde v Partrck -----

Clydebank v Falkirk ---

Dunfermline v Kilmarnock_

Forfar v Meadowbank..

St Johnstone v Queen ot Sih_

Second division

Alloa v Cowdenbeath.

E Fife v Stirling...

E Stating v Dumbarton ..

Montrose v Brechin-

Queen's Park v Arbroath-

Stenhsemuir v AHtion-

Stranraer v Berwick---

Aswan: Bootle v Frareby: EJtesmare Pori
ana Norton v CSttww. Fhaon v Cahnm
Bay: Rossandala v Knowstoy: SaJtord v
Buracough; Warrington v Leylartd Motors.
NORTHERN COUNTIES EAST LEAGUE:
Premier tfvteion: Betpw v Hatam:
Bnobrtgton Treaty v Thacktey: Brigg v
Bridlmgton Town: Denatiy v Grenmtioip 0
MW; Harrogate Railway v Em lay: Ossett
Albion v Long Eaton.

SOUTH EAST COUNTIES LEAGUE (lf-0):
Pint dfv to fcm: G iMin g h am u Ipswich:
Layton Orient v Wottord: Portsmouth w
Chartion. SacaadrMsfon: Crystal Paiaca
v Biu mtaU. Luton v Wimbledon;
Southampton v Bristol Rovers: Sunndan v
Bristol City.

MOTOR SPORT: Euraspoct 7-£om: Brazfl-
ton Grand P tte Co veraga ol race trom Rio
de Janeiro. 88C2 9.iD-9.45ptn: BrazBan
Grand Pdbc HigMghts. Screentport 7.30-
630cm: Powa n pon a Irta ma tio na l.
OLYMPIC CHALLENGE: B8C1 UB-Qm:
.tofthg Par ah rmpicgmaa Irom

RUGBY UNION
PIUONGTON CUP
Semi-finals
Gloucester v Bath

Harlequins v Leicester (250)-

CLUB MATCHES

Aberavon v London Welsh_

AbertiHery V Ebbw Vale_

Canfiff w Barbarians_

Coventry v Neath.—.

Cross Keys v Mold_

Durham City v Sheffield.

Fyfde v Harrogate-

Gos forth v W Hartlepool-

Hartlepool R v Selkirk ..

Headmgley v Liverpool St H.

Kendal v Jed-Forest --

Llanelli v Northampton_

Maesteg v Bridgend_

Melrose V Northern-

Met Police v S Wales Police_

Motley v Bedford-

Highitghtsi

ROWING: Euraaport t130am-1Z30pm:
UnfvaraHy bait ibck Oxford v Cam-
fridge-

RUGBY LEAGUE: Euraaport 3-40pnt
SA cut Cup: Sani-fioafc Warrington v
Wigan from Malm Road.

H UOBY SP^ AL: B8C2 4g6ft20pm:

Ban v Gfoucsstor and Manopulns v
Leicester.

tolteY UNION: Euraaport I0.30pm-«nd-
regnt Five nateona* chanqjiomMp.
®UJ«W1NG: Euresport 1.30-3 and 9-

v? 50f ^L*® ld Cnp lf0ra Wkwa-

Yugoslavia.

SPORT PROM SPAIN; Scramspart 750-
7J0pm.

10.Jlpm: Surter

kTOfll H^waiL

S c ra a na p eu aao-iapm: Upton
ti n e m a tten si O aunp i nnyttlpg: Firat day.

' v Nott in gh am _

je v Public School Wand _

Newport v PontypooJ--

Orrell v Btackheath —---

Roundhay v Wrexham___

Saracens v Vale of Lurie__

Swansea v Rugby -...

Tredegar v Stroud ..

Waterloo v Wakefield ..

NORTH: AOntefc-le-Sireet v BP Cftem-
cate; Ashton-under-Lyne v Oldham;
BaiWon v Halifax vandau; Barton and
CNstnct v Sheffield Oaks: Beverley v
Scumtiorpe; Buatiw v Keyworth; Bradrord
and B&?g!ay v ONejr: CtecWieaton v Bynea;
Durham City v Sheffield: East Ratted v
Stoated; Guobocaugh v Phoenm Park;
Halifax v Davenport Heaton Moor v
Asmon-on-Mersey: Hemswortn v West
Park Bramhope; Huddersfield ymca «
Wasps XV; Hun and ER v Sandat
HuUenstens v tekans: UMelxxouqh v
MacdesfWel; Mattel and Norton v
Laotkensrans; Market Rosen v Old
Hymenans: Matlock v Newark: Wddtes-
brough v Broughton Park; Old
Cros^eyans v Heath: Old Modemians v
Leeds YMCA; Old Rishworthlans v Old
Ottensfans; Poddlngron v Old Bnxfietens;
Pomefran v Nort ha Berton: Prestor
Grasshoppers v Chester; Redcar v Ryan;
Ripon v Morpeth: RodfNans v Rounctoey
Trojans: Roundhay v Wrexham;
Roundheglans v Drtmekt Sandbach v
Leigh; Selby v Bramtey. Sheffield Tners v
Haul y Cwk SWpton v Orpington: South-
port v St marys; Thome nsians v
Whartedale; Wakelleld Wasps v
Dtrm in gto n . Warrington » Ruthin; Mfath-
onOeame v Amber valley: West Park v
Manchester; WenSteydaie » wetherby,
VHbsey v Oronfioki: Wldnes v Tytdrolev:
WBmsJow v Wtrengtan Park Yarnbury v
Bradford Salem; York vMamt; York HI v
Hassle: Yorkshire CW v Burtey.
IHDLAM3& Alcester v Upton upon Sev¬
ern: Aytestone St James v System;
Barkers Butts v Burton Beloer v Gains-
borough, Boston v west Norfolk;
Boumvne v o Mosetefans; Buxton u
Keyworth; Cbesurfield v Ketghday;
CoaMOe v Northampton BS08: Coventry
Saracens v Belgrevr, Qaventry v
WBBingbarough OS: Dunlop v Ha ra u r y:
East Leake v Whrtweifc East Retford v
Sfo«te« Etengwn v O Y afoteans.

Ilkeston v Aytestorvans; Kings Norton v
Newcastle; Leamington v Banbuy; Long
Bockby v O COventrtans; Long Eaton v
Lutterworth: LuEtonians v Gordon
League: Maivem v Edrerfriu: Market
Drayton v Careiocfc; Market Rasen v O
Hymerians; Madock v Newark; Mefooume
vGEC Si Loonartfa: N or t ha mpton Trinity v
Evesham; Nuneaton O E v Loughborough:
Oakham v Westwood works: C Cemrafev
Fha Ways: O Sfrtleians v O Longtonians;
Penrith v Lincoln: Perehara v Gfcucester
OB. Reddech v Kfodenn m swr Caro&ans;
Saffron Walden v Kettenng; Shrewsbury v
Ludknv: Southan v Kibwarth: South
Leicester v Rushden and Higham: Staf¬
ford v Davenport; Stamford v Modems;
Stonevgate v Mshsh: Sutton Cofotlekl v
Laantingtorrians: Tamworth v Stratford;
Taunton v Worcester; Tatted v O
Haiesoreans; Trentnam v H a naswonn:
Trtntty Guild v O Northamptonrans: Vipers
v Paviors: Warley v Birchlield:
Wellingborough v Huntingdon;
Whitchurch v tnsronians,- WOenhall v
Spertans: Wloon v Kynoch: Woodrush v
Brtdgnodti; VarcSey v snipston.

WALES: Abergavenny v Usk; Barry v
Kanfig H® BfocKnood v Bargoed; Btema
v Newport Utd: Brencoch vCebi Crfobwr;
Canlilf HSOB v Old irttyOtens: CdlynytJd v
Seven Stetms; Dinas Powys v Porthcawh
Gamtfitfaim v Nantwgio; Hmwaun v
Ynysybwl; Lfandaf/ North v Old
Pwiai'ttuana; Uanharan v Romney;
Nantyffyhon v Penygraig; Neath Aduntic v
Aberulery Athletic Nelson v Pwaypool
Athletic: Ctenora VNe v GMach Coen:
Pencoed vTonyrefoil: Pentyrch v Caldtcoc
Pyw v Treoronr: Raaoiven v Taibach;
Rhydyfefo v eeddsu: Senghenyod v
Machetr. Ystred Rnondda » Aberaman.
Wwt Wales: Section A: Pon»rtfdul»S v
Ounvant vardre v Llangennecn. Section
B: Ammanford v Fefimoei. Bryraocb v
Carmarmen Atn. Section C: VstraUera v

Uantiy

djffite Section D: Crynant v Burry
Port Gorsernon v Po nt yfaergm. Section fc
GlyTVTAarh v PWiygroes. Pe mfr okeaMra
champtenahtp: AOerystwym v St Davids;
HavertaitJwost u CarcVgnn: Uangwra v
Tenby Utd. Neyland v Pembroke Dock
Qisns: Pembroke v Narbanh: Whtfiand v
Milford Haven.

WEST: Ashfoy Down OB * Bath OE: BAG v
Fr ampto n CotnreO; Bristol Saracens Utd
v Southmead; Bristol Tefopnonas v
Minety. Bode v O Technicsans; Cheddar v
Y/sstlands; Ctifopng Sodbury v Bristol
Harfequns; Chfton v Maidstone: Cfiton
Wanderers v Old Rtetians: Exeier v
Torquay Ath; Fefmouth v O DunsKnans
Hayte v St AusMf-. Imperial u Gotham
Park, hrybndge * London New Zealand;
Kngswcod v Coieme; Newbury v Avon
and Somerset Pokes; North Bristol v Old
Cofotcreans: Ofd Ashtoruans v Bagdcn;
Ok) StzatWtoanE v Arattans: Old
Pacesans » Keynsham; Peruancs Newtyn
v Oxford; Redruth v Abbey: St
Bemaaette's OB v Gardano: Saaittincge v
Barton Hit: St Brendan's OB v Bristol
Saracens; SUves t Chepstow: St Mary's
OB V Old RedcWfians: South West Can v
PMng: Tmerton v Taunton utd; Trow¬
bridge v CWppenhain; Wells v Bumham-
on-Saa; Weston-super-Mare v
Abwcynon: WhrtenaH v Duigs Crusaders;
wtmeombe v Chew VaBey: Whrefoconfte
v Cm Haberdashers.

LONDON AND SOUTH EAST: British Car
Auctions Ccabfncd London Old Bays
Merit Table: South Thames OMstorc CM
Emanuel v KCS OB. Oati Mstchei:
AStaans vReafeMfi Barking vCWngted;

Bexley v King's couegs HospttiB: Cam-
ptet v Harlow; Ctuchester v Wortffing;
Chinnor v Kertey: Dtss v Bury St
Edmunds; Fblfcestone v Brash RaB:
Ipswich v CanforWao; Latohworth Garden
ray v North WBtsham: Norwich v
Cantabrigian; Old Junctors v Dover, Old
Readom a ns v Old tetewonhKsis; Old
Reigatton v Old Wandsworthlans: Old
westefifflans v Redbridge. Portsmouth v
Brighton; Reading v Old Gaytomans:
Siacup v High Wycombe; Staines v
Effingham; Streatham and Croydon v
Havant: Sudbury v Colchester:
U ^Portsmouth v Chetemhsm.

IRELAND; Ulster: A1B Senior CUpe Quar-
tar-fiBafac Ards v BaBymana; Queen s
Ufiw v Instomans; Bangor v Dungannon;
Malone v CoHagens. Senior Chibe
Porradown v Omagh. Leinster:
S m iBiw kk 'a Sente Cite First round:
wanderers v Blackrock Col; Dublin Urev v
Umv Cosege, Dublin. Sente Cter St
fv Lansdowne; Monkstown v

Mag, 5

DLSP.

SCOTLAMk McEwans National League:
First tfivWen; Glasgow Academicals v
SeSuric Hawick v Sinwarts/Metvifle FP;
Jad-Forest v Melrose: Hariots v
YVatsorvens; Braottemiuir v Kelso; Glas¬
gow Hign/Ketvtnsttw * Edmburah Acad.
Second cflvbkn: HBlhead/jorSartiin v
Gaia: Dalziel HSFP v Lartgnam;
Corstomhine v Dunformfine: Porto be! kJ
FP v Sorting Co: Edinburgh Wanderers w
fWmamock: Mussefoutei v Preston
Lodge. Third rfivision: East Kttmde v
Goroonians; Ctarkston v Haddington.
Fourth division: Grangemouth v Pann-
stare: Lenzie v Cambusrang; Leith Acad v
S( Bosvrefls; Carttia Queans Park v
Wigtownshire; Linfithgow v Edinburgh
Ure«r Hutchiasons v Peebles. Fifth di¬
vision: Paisley V Lmngston; HiHscots v
Murraylield: Lismore v Ardrossan;
Cenrothes v Peimtau*. SiUh (flvtslon:
Wtiysktea v St Andrews Univ; Aberdeen-
stvre » Eariston. WatKertxim « DaSieffii;
Itera Acad FP v DrumpeHer. Seventh
cfivlslon; Dims v Lasswade; Strarndyde
Pol V Bkkmyre; Cumnock v Fawrk;
Cutnbamauld v Gariocfi; Clydebank v
Forrest FP.

RUGBY LEAGUE
SILK CUT CUR Send-tinat: Warrington v
Wigan (Maine Road, Manchester. 3.15).

BASKETBALL

CARLSBERG LEAGUE: Play-off:
Manchester v Leicester. NBL First iti-
vtatet playoff quarterfinals: Men: Old¬
ham Celtics v Cheshire Jets: Worthing
Bears v Gateshead vsungs. Women:
Stockport v Crystal Palace.

ICE HOCKEY

HEINEKEN LEAGUE: Premier Division:
Nottingham Panthers v Peterborough
Pirates {630r. Streatham Redskins v
SoIrtuB Barons (5.45).

CAPITAL FOODS SCOTTISH CUP: SemJ-
flnate (at Murray fteM ): MurayfieW Rac¬
ers v Taywde Tigers (2-0); Ayr Bruins v
Fife Flyers |630).

EHGLuSH FIRST DIVISION: Birmingham
Eagles v Chelmsford Cmeltains(7.0):
Humberside Seahawks v Basingstoke
Beavera (5.15).

HOCKEY

MIDLAND CLUBS; Buxton v
Leicester Univ; Egerton Park v
Mansfield; Gymnt v Barford
Tigers; KhaJsa v GEC Coventry;
Leek v Barton; Lictifield v
Bridgnorth; O Halesonians v
Birmingham Univ; Rugby v
Bromsgrove; Tamworth v
Handsworth Eagles.

OTHER SPORT

ICE SKATING: British speed champion¬
ships (Richmondi.

MOTOR SPORT; British rafiy champ-
lemstno: Circuit ot Ireland.

ROWING: University Boat race: Oxford v
Came ridge (Putney to Monlake, 2.40).
SNOOKER; Embassy Worid Champ- ■
torertp qualifying (Prwtonj. Matchroom
Lga^WK^ Steve Davis v Stephen Hendry

TABLE TENNIS: Contmonwealitt
«*ampcrehips iCardift).

TOMORROW

Barclays League
First division

Tottenham v Uvarpool p.lJ5)_

RUGBY UNK3N

Saracens XV v Poouguase XV

RUGBY LEAGUE

STOICS BiTTHI CHA*B»ONSHlP- S«-
«ld dmaon: Sheffield v Fufftam (3.15V

York^Hunstet 1 ^

JSSKBS WpONAU AMATEUR
CHALL5NGE CUP RNAL- ' ~

Pktncte v Egramont (Ce

BASKETBALL

(KbSSI!

SSffiSaHUTB

frP°teL 2J): No rthampton ■/ tpswicn
Tynttstoa v tkmmgham Wrifocats

VW

-. St
Pink.

ICE HOCKEY

Premier DMatorc
Oimam Wasps v Streatham Redskins

P,raws v v/h «*y

(CAPITAL FOODS SCOTTISH CUP: Final
fat Murrey ffofcft Murray!reld Racers or

fe«ide Tigers » Ayr Brums tx File Flyers

pGUSH FWST DIVISION: Lee Valley
Uons v Romford Rasters (5301: Medway
g gara .v SureieriarH] ctwts (S-iSfl
Chelmsford Chieftains v Humberside
Seahawks (6.30); Oxford Qty Stare v

tEssaas*"****-

OTHER SPORT

^^DWAY: Three TT: Eastbourne ?
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THE TIMES SATURDAY MARCH 25 1989

GARDENING

gardening/outdoor leisure

Nursery rhyme and reason

Francesca Greennafr
catches up on the
latest changes
with Beth Chatto
in East Anglia

I recently stumbled across the
Phrase “Beth Chatto type
plants" in a gardening book,
an inelegant term, but at once
understood to refer to those.
rather special plants of subtle form
and colouring identified with the
Beth Chatto nursery. Gardening
altitudes have changed fun¬
damentally since Chatto first exhib¬
ited at Chelsea — the innovator has
become an institution, and many of
the plants she brought to public
notice are included in every nursery
catalogue. Now she has given up her
Chelsea appearance, and to discover
her plans for the future, 1 went down -
to her famous nursery, in the c hill
blowy fiats of East Anglia
During the five years since I was
Iasi there, both the gardens and the
nursery have expanded hugely —
but Beth looked just the same, eager
to set out into the boisterous March
weather, a windblown bundle of
nervous energy, swiftly touring the
garden pointing out the delights and
delicacies, picking, stroking, sniff¬
ing the plants, prying with deftly
practised fingers to demonstrate a
silvery underleaf, or the fine points
of a recondite flower.

Abstaining from Chelsea, she
explained, means “more time to
develop the garden". She has taken
the opportunity presented by storm-
gaps to plant unusual trees such as
the Coyote willow Salix exigua, a
silvery-leaved willow which grows .
well on a dryish, light soil, and
shrubs such as the very early
flowering golden currant (Ribes
sanguineum Brocklebankiiy, and a
small, elegant shrub (called Rubus
lineatus ) with wonderfully pleated
young leaves, silky on the
underside.

None of these is yet available as
Beth Chatto always gives them a
thorough garden trial before build¬
ing stocks for sale, but the whole
range of plants sold in the nursery is
grown in the garden, so purchasers
can see for themselves how things
that take their fancy look in garden
surroundings, and which sod con-,
didons and companion plants suit
them. ..

The extent of the; garden^ now •;

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reaches almost to the boundaries of
the Chatto land, giving extra nurs¬
ery and display space, while the
garden landscape stretches beyond
the three pools to a bank of Fetasites
on the far side of the reservoir. The
largest new project is a woodland
garden, to extend the present wood
walk. Inside an adjacent one-and-a-
half acres of scrubby mixed wood¬
land, trees too dose together are
being thinned to allow die light in.
Soon the poorish soil will be mixed
with gravel and compost and
planted up. Personally, I dislike
gardened woods, but Chatto has
come nearest to converting me, with
her old trees intertwined with
climbing roses, and daffodils
planted with such attention to form
and colour that even I cannot help
but admire ft.

Part of her secret is that inside the
woodland habitat she uses species,
or early crosses, rather than the
more artificial garden hybrids. In
the turf; there are the lovely dog’s
tooth violets (Erythronium
denscanis) and glossy green sheaves
of colchicum leaves—“I can’t think
why people dislike them, they are so
handsome”—which will die back in
the summer, for the pink autumn
crocus-.flowets to ^appear bare,
against a background of grass.

The wild daffodils and the «man
golden tetod-tetes gradually give
place to while and creamy narcis¬
sus, graceful White Beauty
erythroniums, and Martagon lilies,
afl of which have been successfully
natu ralized in the grass the

trees and wide path.

D uring early summer,
they die back behind a
frothy tumble of cow-
parsley and hedge pais¬
ley, but before hogweed,
dock and thistle move into the
cycle, “all the woodland turf is
thoroughly mown, and we look
forward to the autumn display of
colchicums”. At the moment vis¬
itors can only peer into the wood¬
land walk, but when the new wood
garden is integrated with it, there
will be broad grassy paths among
the trees and shrubs and herbaceous
plants, and “perhaps some species
rhododendrons and Jacecaphydran-
geas might look nice here, if they
will grow”.

We moved on to private territory
where the nursery plants are propa¬
gated, and where Beth Chatto has
decided to devote a considerable
part of her time “to raising plants—
not necessarily difficult in the
garden — but which are difficult or

slow to propagate". A veratrum can
take up to seven years from seed,
the woodland trifiiums take two
years just to germinate. Some of the
old-fashioned plants, such as the
Jack-in-the-green primroses with
their ruff of leaftike sepals
surrounding the flower, are very
difficult to come by. These rare and
slowly increasing plants are accom¬
modated in raised beds in a
purpose-built tunnel known as the
“hospital block”.

In the outdoor nursery beds, the
plants are grown and divided Four
or five blocks of hellebore testify to
the discerning Beth Chatto eye.
Easily the most beautiful I have ever
seen is a fairly large flower of dear
pink, upon which a dense crimson
teardrop dissolves at the edges into
lighter brush-strokes. A dark plum-
coloured form is “lovely dose to,
bat not eye-catching in a garden
composition — the colour blends
too closely with the soil colour; the
pale creamy-yellow ones are better
at a distance”.

When sufficient stocks have been
built up from the mother plants,
new entries appear with lovingly
attentive descriptions in the latest
catalogue. A preview of the list for
autumn 1989 reveals the creamy

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Spending my time prostrate
among snowdrops in damp
flower beds and winter turf him
convinced me of two things
(Francesca Gnxmoak writes}.
First, despite the adamant
denial of one reader of this
column, snowdrops have a
scent; second, the Rngfah
language is deficient in the
wcahtdary of scent. What can
yon say about tbe earthy smell
of daffodils, except that they
are daffodil-scented? Simi¬
larly, the snowdrops have a
slight, piquant bat unmistak¬
able scent, like nothing but
itself, Like violets, primroses,
wood anemones and other
delicate flowers of . early
spring, they give their scent
only when warmed, and seem
to dose it off as the flowers
become overblown. A bunch of
early snowdrops brought into
a warmish room gives out a
good scent, as do recently
opened dumps to the sun.

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different markings and forms.
I grow the common snowdrop
Galanthus airalix, which is
naturalized in woodlands and
has a wispy, evanescent scent,
but I am told by experts that
some varieties, especially one
called Galon thus pUcatus
Warham, have a more pro¬
nounced scent — though
whether stronger or sweeter, I
do not yet know.

Double snowdrops seem to
smell less, but it is the lumpy
fnll-skirtedness of the inner
petals which is grounds for
complaint in those con¬
noisseurs who value above all

the characteristic, graceful
slenderness of single flowers.
Growing both singles and
doubles myself, I find they
naturalize equally well
(though doubles cannot be
reproduced from seed). I
believe there is room for both,
especially having been in¬
troduced recently to Lady
Elphinstone, a variety which
has yeflow edgings on die
trifled skirts.

To increase die spread of
snowdrops, dig ap sizable
clumps, carefully separate die
individual bulbs with their
leaves and replant. A number
of different lands are begin¬
ning to be available at some
nurseries in spring, since
many expats now believe that
transplanting (in the green) is
better than waiting until au¬
tumn, when balbs can easily
dry out, becoming shrivelled
and impossible to grow. Cer¬
tainly, baying green plants
reassures tbe purchaser that
they are home-grown stocks
and not illegally taken from
the wild in Asia Minor.

Snowdrops thrive in most
soils in shade or dappled
shade (though they should be
planted less deeply — about
2in/5cm — in heavy ground).
Winter aconites which have
finished flowering can also be
divided and transplanted in
the same way now.

At five minutes
to midnight,

Det Sgt

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asked us to
gather in the
Amdega.

We filed into tke Amdega- Tke night
sky glittered at us tkrougk tke glass
wkick skielded us from tke cold nigkt
air. As we assemkled, I considered
our surroundings.

flowered Gladiolus tristis ; dainty
and scented, which will .enjoy a
conservatory if you don't have a
warm sunny spot in the garden, and
a most unusual pulmonaria with
apple green leaves edged in white
with very early coral red flowers.
Some specialities on the “restricted
list” which are now available are a
white Kaffir lily {Schizosiylis), a
white nerine, an extraordinary ajuga
called Catlin’s Giant, which has
huge chocolate brown leaves and
blue flowers, and an impressive
evergreen euphorbia (x martiniiy, a
mound of evergreen rosettes which
carries reddish leaves followed by
lime-green flowers (growing to
about 2ft tall).

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column — you will also automati¬
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supplementary list Tbe Beth
Chatto Gardens and Nursery
(Elmstead Market, Colchester C07
7DB) are open March-October,
Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. The garden is
open daily (except Sundays and
Bank Holidays) under the National i
Gardens Scheme, admission £1,. |
child free. ]

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• Sow pinks (dianthus),
salvias and nkotianas in the
greenhouse.

• Plant pot-grown
strawberries now, and you
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strawberries to eat in the
summer. Sow alpine
strawberries.

• Plant out pots of balbs
after flowers have faded (after
leaving them outside to

acclimatize for a week first).

• Sow early varieties of
peas such as Meteor if
weather continues mild.

• Sow Brussels sprouts in
pots to plant out from mid-
May.

• Plant early potatoes
which should hare good
strong shoots, and sow
early turnips under cloches.

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